1.   But with lawyers and personnel departments already taking truthful discretion out of our hands, do we really want government stepping in, too?

2.   I think the problem with zero tolerance is it takes away discretion.

3.   Some prosecutors oppose the idea, arguing that it abrogates state authority and takes discretion away from judges to appoint public defenders.

4.   They impose mandatory prison sentences, taking discretion away from judges.

5.   For most criminal aliens, Congress largely took that discretion away.