News wires
Cedar Rapids, IA – Six former U.S. attorneys general and 17 other Justice Department veterans have signed a letter to the judge in the Sholom Rubashkin case, criticizing the prosecutors’ recommendation that Rubashkin receive life in prison for his bank fraud conviction.
They note the “potential absurdity” in prosecutors using the federal sentencing guidelines to calculate a recommendation of life in prison for Rubashkin, noting the guidelines can produce sentencing ranges that are greater than necessary and “lack any common sentencing wisdom.”
“We cannot fathom how truly sound and sensible sentencing rules could call for a life sentence — or anything close to it — for Mr. Rubashkin, a 51-year-old, first-time, non-violent offender whose case involves many mitigating factors and whose personal history and extraordinary family circumstances suggest that a sentence of a modest number of years could and would be more than sufficient to serve any and all applicable sentencing purposes,” the letter said.
The letters represent an unprecedented accumulation of support from across the political spectrum, including a wide range of views on legal philosophy and federal sentencing guidelines.
The former Justice Department officials include an array of both Democratic and Republican appointees, including those who served in every administration from Lyndon B. Johnson through George W. Bush.
The six former attorneys general to sign the letter are Nicholas Katzenbach and Ramsey Clark, both from the Johnson administration in the mid- to late 1960s; Edwin Meese III, who served from 1985 to 1988 during the Reagan administration; Richard Thornburgh, from 1988 to 1991 during during the Reagan and Bush administrations; William Barr, from 1991 to 1993 during the Bush administration; and Janet Reno, from 1993 to 2001 during the Clinton administration.
Kenneth Starr, the former judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, and solicitor general, has said he also will sign the letter.
Everyone please give tzedaka in the zechus of s.m.r. To r Meir Baal hanes today is his yarzteit look what the Baal Shem tov writes in Keser Shem tov 386
go about your day with the mindset of tracht gut vet zein gut. Do the best to be the best mench you can be, say tehillim. You don’t have to do more than being the best YOU that you can be. Look for opportunities to do ahavas yisroel, which can be smiling at another yid, or helping them, or saying a positive word. Make choices that are according to Torah, and do in in SMR’s zechus.
HaShem zol helfen.
The democracy of the US is at stake as well. We all win if truth comes out, G-d willing.
please, yidden; stay focused.whatever good you are able to do,do it l’zchus sholom mordechai ben rivkah and let’s stop turning everything into controversy. nobody benefits,certainly not the yungerman we all want to help,that’s for sure.daven with all your heart everyone,and tracht goot with all your might. nothing else is important now.
To whom ever contacted this impressive selection of people and generated this type of response. H-shem should Bless all of giving this open support.
this post was to clarify a few things not to argue about what good Yechi will do just let the posts be posts anyway it’s not this point of this. so say it 177,777 times whatever.
REALLY? All I gotta do is say yechi hamelech 3 times? Golly! What if I say it 9 times – will I win the lottery?
Saying Yechi will do it? What planet are you living on?
saying yechi is not magic! ur right about everything else
mufshat
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omain to number 9
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its all in hashems hands
hashem yirachem
and Daven!
Tomorrow is Pesach sheini and according to most the yahrtzeit if rabbi meir ba’al hanes. Two major zechuyos for smr. a) he helpped many put meat on their table for pesach. b) he helpped collel chabad a reb meir ba’al hanes tzedoka. The zchus zol I’m baishteyn
The greater the pressure, the better the chance. Keep going, people!
This is a good sign
Too Bad these people aren’t the judges