victims now today of draconian sentences that congress saw fit in 2010 to address by lowering a mandatory or minimum sentence. and then employs this mechanism to try to block funding for that rare effort on the part of this president. it's a little disconcerting. what i think is that we have a president and an attorney general who have identified a serious moral, economic, and policy concern, a malignancy on the criminal justice system. and they have identified a mechanism to address that and are simply trying to do that. if this president had historically had a loose trigger finger, so to speak, with pardons and clemency, then that might be a different matter. but under the circumstances this