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Even in 2016, when the GOP first nominated Trump, its platform praised "the Republican Governors and legislators who have been implementing criminal justice reforms like those proposed by our 2012 ...
The Senate actually did not vote on criminal justice reform until December 2018 due to disagreement about the scope of the First Step Act. Without the inclusion of meaningful sentence reform akin to the measures proposed in the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, many Senate Democrats were unwilling to support it.
The Republican push on the issue of criminal justice reform began in the summer, as Candelora mentioned on Monday. "Sadly, that was the best opportunity for us to act.
Republican lawmakers are undoing bipartisan measures against unjust prison sentences and punitive policies. Red States Are Reversing Criminal Justice Reform Skip to main content
The bill passed the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives on a mostly party-line vote of 220–212, [5] but not the evenly divided but Democratic-controlled Senate amid opposition from Republicans. [6] [7] Negotiations between Republican and Democratic senators on a reform bill collapsed in September 2021. [7]
The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act (S. 2123, also called the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 or SRCA) is a bipartisan [1] criminal justice reform bill introduced into the United States Senate on October 1, 2015, by Chuck Grassley, a Republican senator from Iowa and the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
Newt Gingrich and Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) both penned editorials in favor of the proposal, each co-authored with B. Wayne Hughes Jr. (Hughes, a Republican billionaire, donated over $1.25 million ...
In 2019, McConnell blocked Democrats from bringing a voting reform bill up for a vote in the Senate. [ 172 ] In 2019, he claimed that Democrats were at fault for election fraud in the 2018 North Carolina 9th congressional district election , and that voter ID laws would have prevented the fraud.