Patrick Leahy

diminishing of mandatory minimum sentences. The war on drugs started in the 1970’s by none other than President Richard Nixon. He stated that “[a]merica’s public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse. To fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive (Sharp, 1994, p.1).” However, in a July 2015 press release Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) stated a very different outlook on the war on drugs when he was approached by a Georgetown Law School student with questions about what could be done to address the inequality inside the criminal justice system. To which the Senator responded back to the question with, “it had been clear to me that we had lost the war on drugs (Leahy, 2015, p.1).” He also went on to explain that he noticed that the criminal justice system was in crisis. Elaborating by saying, “For three decades, Congress turned to mandatory minimum sentences to answer every public safety concern, we send more people to prison than any other developed country in the world. This mass incarceration threatens our justice system’s fiscal health, effectiveness, and even its legitimacy” (Leahy, 2015, p.1). What is being talked about here is that they lost the “war on drugs”. And the mass incarceration is going to do more harm for the system than anything else if they continue to hand out these long minimum sentences. Many of the sentences that were handed down were based off the discretion of the judge and the prosecutor, it is…

The patriot act is a disgrace to the united states constitution, and to what this country stands for. This act allows government agents can arrest and detain individuals suspected of terrorist activities and can hold them indefinitely without charge and without an attorney. Also allowed by this act the ability for the cia to spy on american citizens (Ten Big). However sentors Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy were holding up the passing og the patriot act because they realized it would suspend the…

Americans question whether their information is protected on social media sites. From these studies, it can be concluded that purchasing products online or creating social media accounts comes with a steep price--one’s privacy. In February of 2012, the Consumer Bill of Rights, proposed by President Obama, was introduced. The goal was for individuals to gain control of their information held by commercial companies. Currently, the bill has failed to pass. Without it, advertising companies and…

Living in the past can hold you back from opportunities that present themselves in the current day. This is shown in the film The Silver Lining Playbook directed by David O. Russell, this film sends an important message that living in the past will affect you in the present. Patrick Solitano Jr lived in the past, this torn his whole life apart. Living in the past cause Pat to go through many mental stages such as obsessed, Bipolar, defensive and decisive. Pat’s first hurdle to become mentally…

The Stock Market Challenge For this topic we were set a task to submit a report that aims to analyse and evaluate the financial performance of an organisation we each individually chose for the stock market challenge. To begin with I chose the company Glencore to invest £100,000 in. It is said that Glencore is one of the world’s largest diversified natural resource companies, producing and marketing over 90 commodities, with a network that spans more than 50 countries and around 181,000…

Constitution and in the midst of the crisis of nullification, James Madison reaffirmed the centrality of federalism while writing the preface to what would become his “Notes on the Federal Convention”. The federal system certainly was important to James Madison and his contemporaries, and it has been important to succeeding generations of Americans who lived their lives and struggled with collective issues and concerns in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Numerous ideas on government…

A hero doesn’t need to have superhuman abilities like flight, superstrength, or invincibility. The attributes of a hero can be anyone who follows superb morals, make an effort to help anyone, and help make a difference in our world. The definition of a hero is based on people’s opinion of what a hero do to help people. While some people believe that a stereotypical comic superhero is a definition of a hero, others believe that a hero can be anyone. Ernest Hemingway, the famous author for a…

With the invention of the Internet has come with the creation of a whole new way people express their creativity. A common form of expression on the internet is through the use of fan made content, including things such as fan fiction and memes. In recent months, the 2007 animated film Bee Movie has received much attention on the internet through the use of this fan made content, in particular memes. Many of these memes are about making the film seem even more absurd through editing the film or…

Introduction: Flannery O’Connor ambitiously sets out to make a reader face the grotesque nature of society and all it’s commonly concealed evils. In “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction” Flannery O’Connor refers to herself as a “realist of distances.” Which means in order for her to explore the difficult and mysterious aspects of human existence she exaggerates the characters and ideas created in her stories. She considers the truly grotesque aspects of writing to be the most…

The Bacon’s Rebellion Bacon’s rebellion is a revolution that occurred in Virginia, which started in the year 1676. Nathaniel Bacon was the leader of this revolution who was born in England. Since he was very troublesome, his father sent him to Virginia from England with an expectation that he would mature and have a better life. During that time, William Berkeley was the governor of Virginia and also happened to be bacon’s cousin. The governor, Berkeley, treated Bacon with respect by giving…