Honourable senators may remember that during the Reagan administration, the Attorney General was a man named Edwin Meese III. He was at the head of the line of the " lock-'em-up-and-throw-away-the-key" legislation, and mandatory minimum sentencing was the foundation of it.
Honorables sénateurs, vous vous souviendrez peut-être que, sous l'administration Reagan, le procureur général s'appelait Edwin Meese.