More crazy bulls--t from team Trump and the GOP.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...courts-w476468
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In 2013, the Department of Justice and the National Institute of Standards and Technology formed a commission to engage independent experts to improve the reliability of forensic evidence. The National Commission on Forensic Science, made up of scientists, judges, attorneys, researchers and law enforcement officials is tasked with making recommendations to the DOJ concerning the validity of forensic science, how quality control in forensic labs can be improved and what protocols should govern evidence seizure, testing and analysis.
But Sessions has had enough with these meddling scientists. He plans to scrap the commission and replace it with an in-house adviser and maybe some other commission – presumably a more prosecution-friendly one. He and his friends at the American Association of District Attorneys who supported the move have indicated they prefer that standards for prosecutions are left up to prosecutors. The Washington Post reported that Sessions has also ordered the FBI to stop its review of past cases involving suspect evidence.
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