I agree that it would be good if we got rid of the practice of overcharging, which isn’t just going for the highest offense. Prosecutors will often try to tack on related charges that they can peel off easily while bargaining. But having read the memo, plea bargaining situations are not what Sessions is going after.
That said, the Holder memo he’s going after here was weak tea to begin with. The new memo retains some prosecutorial discretion, but not as much. The old memo could be ignored by a hard charging prosecutor and you’d still have big charges getting leveled.
In summary, Jeff Sessions is a bag of snakes that talks, but the thing he’s going after here was no substitute for real criminal justice reform.
Edits: fixed some grammar and changed hanging to charging, damn phone
