# Obama signs the Fair Sentencing Act reducing the crack-to-powder ratio Date: 2010 ## The fact On 3 August 2010 President Obama signed S. 1789, the Fair Sentencing Act, as Public Law 111-220, raising crack thresholds and cutting the 100:1 powder ratio toward 18:1 while ending a mandatory minimum for simple crack possession. ## Context 1980s mandatory-minimum statutes sat as parents. Neighbouring clemency 2017 is a child. He did not sit as every district judge. Durbin, Leahy, Sessions, and others share the roll call. Clemency 19 January 2017 is a child. DACA is a later immigration memo, not this criminal statute. A United States president proposes, signs, vetoes, and directs the executive. Congress enacts statutes. The Federal Reserve, states, courts, and later presidents share later series. Office-holding is not authorship of every later outcome. Allegation is not a completed judgment. Legislative achievements require shared congressional attribution. He does not set the federal funds rate, write a state Medicaid waiver by himself, or convert a 2009 oath into a unique 2016 uninsured coefficient. A signature is not unique authorship of a House and Senate text. A troop order is not authorship of every later round. He is not president as of 27 August 2026. [Donald Trump](/people/mig-donald-trump) is president from 20 January 2025. [Joe Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) was president 2021–2025. ## Evidence and sources White House (archives) carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [protection of minority rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights): a completed federal sentencing-ratio statute. ## What is established and what is not Established: 3 August 2010 signature of Public Law 111-220, independently reported. Not established: that every crack sentence uniquely fell that week, or a unique later incarceration coefficient from August. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Congress enacted. Sentencing Commission and judges apply.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Obama signs the Fair Sentencing Act reducing the crack-to-powder ratio, not a later speech about Obama signs the Fair Sentencing Act reducing the crack-to-powder ratio. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Obama signs the Fair Sentencing Act reducing the crack-to-powder ratio on 2010-08-03 is not a licence to treat every later White House (archives) communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Obama signs the Fair Sentencing Act reducing the crack-to-powder ratio into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He signed. Congress enacted. Sentencing Commission and judges apply. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Barack Obama: https://factrail.ai/people/barack-obama ## Drivers - Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights - Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-crack-idUSTRE6725QJ20100803 - https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2010/08/03/president-obama-signs-fair-sentencing-act ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-fair-sentencing-2010