The First Step Act: The only Trump-era achievement Democrats are eager to replicate

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so they admit Trump is not racist!

As police reform talks sputter, bipartisan criminal justice bills advance

Bipartisan criminal justice reform is chugging ahead in Congress, a potential deal that follows 2018's cross-aisle First Step Act.

www.politico.com

 

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"Backers of this year's criminal justice legislation acknowledge it’s a more modest effort than the 2018 criminal justice reform bill, a rare moment of unity during Trump's presidency. They also admit that getting Senate GOP buy-in might be tougher without Trump around

Whether Republicans back criminal justice reform to the extent that they did in 2018 remains to be seen. The First Step Act, which included sentencing as well as prison reform provisions, passed the Senate with 38 GOP votes but only after many conservatives got on board following a personal appeal from Trump. A potentially stronger deterrent than a Democrat in the White House, for some Republicans weighing this year's bills, is the current increase in violent crime."

 

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basquebromance

Kudos to Trump for signing the First Step Act....

You should ask yourself....Who wrote the initial bills that preceded the First Step Act?

Then the next question after that should be...who were the ones who opposed most of the criminal justice reform bills including the First Step Act itself?

 

[Moonglow]

basquebromance

Kudos to Trump for signing the First Step Act....

You should ask yourself....Who wrote the initial bills that preceded the First Step Act?

Then the next question after that should be...who were the ones who opposed most of the criminal justice reform bills including the First Step Act itself?

USMB has a poster that is an ex-con that berates Democrats daily and claims all violence is due to Democrats letting people out of prison that should be in prison, yet he denies any GOP involvement with early release or probation or bail bonds for those that break the law with a gun..

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

basquebromance

Kudos to Trump for signing the First Step Act....

You should ask yourself....Who wrote the initial bills that preceded the First Step Act?

Then the next question after that should be...who were the ones who opposed most of the criminal justice reform bills including the First Step Act itself?

USMB has a poster that is an ex-con that berates Democrats daily and claims all violence is due to Democrats letting people out of prison that should be in prison, yet he denies any GOP involvement with early release or probation or bail bonds for those that break the law with a gun..

It's just an admission that certain "conservatives" don't really give a fuck about criminal justice reform in general...

Only reason they bring up the 1st Step Act -- (which is a just a watered down version of earlier progressive bills) -- is so they can bring it up and say "Look, we aren't racist...we passed this bill"