U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday joined Utah’s top federal prosecutor in calling on Congress to repair a law meant to keep violent career criminals locked up — and he pointed to the recent deaths of two teens in Utah County as evidence.
Sessions, speaking at a news conference in Little Rock, said a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that cut part of the Armed Career Criminal Act for being too vague has been “devastating for Americans across the country," and said law enforcement is missing a crucial tool.
The Armed Career Criminal Act affects defendants who have been convicted of three designated types of felonies if, on a fourth conviction, they are charged with having a gun.