let's just begin with justice breyer there, lawrence hurley. what is he saying?as you can tell from what he was saying, there's no interlocking rules for criminal sentencing. there's drug laws and other laws about armed criminals and various other things. and the point he was making was that the first stepback in this law that reduced sentences -- reduced the -- retroactively the law that reduced the disparity between crack and cocaine sentencing was not really -- didn't really address this issue of people, no level offenders who were covered under this under provision of the law which included these criminals. so -- and the court was unanimous on that in the ruling yesterday. so it wasn't like a divisive case, it was more that congress drafted the law in a way that would allow these low level offenders to be included. >> who brought this case before the court and what was their argument? >> a lot of -- actually the sort of dozen cases, actually, pending at the court on this very issue. but the one case the court took, terry, the defendant from florida, and made

. >> coming up, supreme court correspondent lawrence hurley talked about yesterday's drug sentencingcision. daily beast senior columnist matt lewis talks about political challenges for both artie's. -- for both pa

. >> coming up, supreme court correspondent lawrence hurley talked about yesterday's drug sentencingecision. daily beast senior columnist matt lewis talks about political challenges for both artie's. -- for both parties. magazine writer edward-isaac dovere talks about his book battle for the soul: inside the democrats' campaigns to defeat trump. you can join the conversation with phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. washington journal is next. host: good morning. from reuters, the supreme court yesterday declined to expand crack cocaine reform. lawrence hurley reports that the supreme court ruled that potentially hundreds of low-level rat cocaine offenders cannot benefit under the 2018 firststep law that reduces certain sentences and part meant to reduce racial disparities. more coming up. we want to get your thoughts on drug laws in this country. do they? need to be changed? if you live in the eastern or central parts of the country, (202) 748-8000. mountain and pacific, (202) 748-8001. if you want to text us with your thoughts, text us at (202) 748-8003. include your first n