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Sessions has moved swiftly to unwind the Obama Justice Department's policies.
塞申斯迅速展開行動，解除了司法部在奧巴馬領導下制定的政策。
He canceled the "smart on crime" initiative and replaced it with a directive to pursue maximal charging and sentencing.
他還取消了“智能司法”倡議，代之以追求最大限度指控和量刑的指示。
He pulled out of the consent decrees and rescinded Holder's hands-of marijuana-enforcement policy.
同時，撤銷同意法令，廢除（奧巴馬政府的司法部長）霍爾德制定的大麻強制執行政策。
He announced the end of DACA, stepped up deportation orders and sued California over sanctuary cities.
宣布結束DACA計劃，進一步強化驅逐令，還就庇護城市問題起訴了加州。
He has embraced Trump's call to impose the death penalty on some drug dealers, which some legal scholars consider unconstitutional.
還響應了特朗普對部分毒販處以死刑的號召，而一些法律學者認為這種處罰是違憲的。
Emphasizing treatment for drug addicts isn't just inefective, according to Sessions—it's dangerous.
塞申斯表示，強調對吸毒者予以治療不僅無效，還很危險。
"The extraordinary surge in addiction and drug death is a product of a popular misunderstanding of the dangers of drugs," he told me.
他告訴我：“成癮人數和死亡人數的激增，是人們普遍誤解毒品危害造成的。”
"Because all too often, all we get in the media is how anybody who's against drugs is goofy, and we just ought to chill out.
“因為媒體上傳達的信息全部都是反對毒品的人都是多么的愚蠢，所以我們應該冷靜冷靜。”
In February, Sessions sent a letter warning the Senate that a bill to reduce federal sentences risked "putting the very worst criminals back into our communities."
今年2月，塞申斯寫信警告參議院，表示減輕聯邦刑罰的法案可能會“將品行最壞的罪犯送回我們身邊”。
(An outraged Chuck Grassley, the Republican Senator from Iowa, told reporters that if Sessions wanted to keep making laws, he should go back to elected office.)
(憤怒的愛荷華州共和黨參議員查克·格拉斯利對記者表示，如果塞申斯想要繼續制定法律，他就應該回到他當選的辦公室去。)
Sessions believes his erstwhile colleagues have been misled.
塞申斯認為，他以前的同事被誤導了。
"This whole mentality that there's another solution other than incarceration," he told me,
他告訴我，“認為除了監禁還有其他解決辦法的心態，”
"all I will say to you is, people today don't know that every one of these things has been tried over the last 40 years."
“我只想跟你說，其實是因為今天的人們并不知道，這些事情在過去的40年里就都已經嘗試過了。”
Sessions seemed exasperated when I asked him to address the disproportionate impact of harsh policing and incarceration on black families and communities.
當我請他談談嚴厲的治安和監禁將會對黑人家庭及社區造成的不成比例的影響時，塞申斯似乎有些惱火。
He cited the work of Heather Mac Donald, the controversial conservative scholar
他引用了頗具爭議的保守派學者希瑟·麥克唐納德的言論，
who argues that racial bias in the criminal-justice system is a myth and that the real problem is a "war on cops."
后者認為刑事司法系統中的種族偏見只是傳說，真正的問題是“與警察的戰爭”。
Mac Donald popularized the concept of the "Ferguson effect," an unproven theory that crime rises when police feel hamstrung by political oversight.
麥克唐納德讓“弗格森效應”這一概念走入了大眾的視野，這是一個尚未證實的假說，聲稱警察受到政治監督的鉗制時，犯罪率就會上升。
Sessions embraces this notion.
塞申斯接受了這個概念。
In cities like Baltimore and Chicago, he told me, politicians "spend all that time attacking the police department instead of the criminals."
在巴爾的摩和芝加哥等城市，他告訴我，政客們“把所有的時間都花在了抨擊警察局而不是抨擊罪犯上”。
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