Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.

This was a mandatory fight. And this has to be mandated to do over again, because we've got to get a winner out of a mandatory fight.

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

When you talk about mandatory minimums, it created a lot of unfairness in our sentencing.