He Can't Be Serious...

Ashcroft wants lenient sentences reported

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General John Ashcroft wants prosecutors to closely monitor which judges impose more lenient sentences than federal guidelines recommend, a step some critics say could limit judicial independence.

"The Department of Justice has a solemn obligation to ensure that laws concerning criminal sentencing are faithfully, fairly and consistently enforced," Ashcroft wrote.

It is high time those rapscallions on the bench learned that their job is not to ensure that justice is done, but that criminals are properly brutalized. Maybe next AG Ashcroft will ask prosecutors to keep at track of which juries are so irresponsible as to fail to in their duty to get a conviction.