<P> Sessions supported the reduction (but not the elimination) of the sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powdered cocaine, ultimately passed into law with the Fair Sentencing Act 2010 . </P> <P> On October 5, 2005, Sessions was one of nine Senators who voted against a Senate amendment to a House bill that prohibited cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment of individuals in the custody or under the physical control of the United States Government . </P> <P> In November 2010, Sessions was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee when the committee voted unanimously in favor of the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA), and sent the bill to the full Senate for consideration . The proposed law would allow the Attorney General to ask a court to issue a restraining order on Internet domain names that host copyright - infringing material . </P> <P> In October 2015, Sessions opposed Chairman Chuck Grassley's (R - IA) Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, a bipartisan bill which sought to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for some nonviolent crimes . The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary approved the bill by a vote of 15--5 . According to The New York Times, Sessions, Tom Cotton, and David Perdue "stalled the bill in the Senate and sapped momentum from a simultaneous House effort". Senator Dick Durbin (D - IL), a co-sponsor of the bill, has said Sessions was its top opponent . </P>

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