Topic: 18 To 1 Ratio

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38: You Ain't Binary
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38: You Ain't Binary

Barack Obama, Fair Sentencing Act of 2010

In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act to reduce the disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentences. However, the hosts point out that the law only reduced the ratio from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1, rather than eliminating it. They criticize the Congressional Black Caucus and the Obama administration for failing to achieve a 1-to-1 ratio despite having a Democratic majority.