Mandatory minimums are yet another way the leg. and exec. branches try and interfere with the jud.

What... judges are now incapable of determining sentences according to the circumstances of each individual case and appropriately executing justice? That's garbage. It's no business of the legislative and executive branches to dictate the kinds of sentences the courts should hand out in cases like this.

We're already quite swiftly sliding down that slippery slope and when judges are being told how they should rule and what kind of sentences they should hand out and are having their own discretion and authority overruled and removed, it's not a good thing for anyone.