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U.S. Sentencing Commission

The commission was created by the Sentencing Reform Act provisions of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. The constitutionality of the commission was challenged as a congressional encroachment on the power of the executive but upheld by the Supreme Court in 'Mistretta v. United States', . Wikipedia*

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U.S. Sentencing Commission has hosted 3 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1993 Speech. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2011 with an average of 45,792 views per video. Most common tag: Drug Trafficking.

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    Attorney General Holder on Drug Sentencing

    Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the U.S. Sentencing Commission and stated his endorsment for a proposal to redu…

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    Crack Cocaine Sentencing

    The U.S. Sentencing Commission held a public meeting on lowering crack cocaine sentencing guidelines. The commission voted in…

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    Drugs and Violence in America

    Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist spoke to an audience at a conference of judges and corrections officials on the polic…

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