The West Wing1999

Josh Lyman:
If you wanna throw light on how minimums and guidelines conspire to produce disproportionate punishments...

President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet:
... and worse: leave judges impotent! Our judicial system is predicated on an individual's right to a fair trial. But how individual is that process, if a 258 box grid seales your fate before you ever step foot in front of a judge, a FEDERAL judge, that my office has invested considerable effort in selecting, who is then constrained from exercising basic common sense, while twenty-nine year old prosecutors, who make their bones on their win-loss record hold the only discretion in the whole system?