Supreme Court upholds mandatory prison terms for some low-level drug dealers

Justices considered how a safety valve provision of the 2018 First Step Act applies to nonviolent drug dealers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Friday that thousands of low-level drug dealers are ineligible for shortened prison terms under a Trump-era bipartisan criminal justice overhaul.

The justices took the case of Mark Pulsifer, an Iowa man who was convicted of distributing at least 50 grams of methamphetamine, to settle a dispute among federal courts over the meaning of the word “and” in a muddy provision of the 2018 .

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