The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in Pulsifer v. United States, one of the most important criminal law cases in recent memory. The issue in Pulsifer is very specific: the meaning of the word “and” in an obscure federal statute. But the consequences are massive. If the court rules against the government, then thousands more federal defendants each year can avoid federal drug laws’ draconian mandatory minimum sentences. Since the 1980s, people convicted of federal drug crimes have been subject to 10-year mandatory-minimum sentences for relatively modest amounts of drugs. If you transport one kilogram of heroin, 280 grams of crack cocaine or just 50 grams of methamphetamine,
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