USA: VA senator introduces legislation to eliminate federal cocaine sentencing disparity

USA: VA senator introduces legislation to eliminate federal cocaine sentencing disparity
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Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, alongside his colleagues, has introduced the Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law (EQUAL) Act. The bipartisan legislation aims to eliminate the federal sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine and apply it retroactively to those already convicted or sentenced. Currently, statutory criminal penalties for crack cocaine are harsher than […]

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