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Another setback for criminal justice advocates this year was the failure of Proposition 6, which trailed Wednesday morning with 54% of voters casting a "no" vote. This marks the second failed ...
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 ...
Criminal justice policy advocates caution against viewing the election results as a referendum against reform.
California voters decided this week to roll back criminal justice reforms and appeared to be ousting progressive prosecutors in Los Angeles and Alameda counties, effectively reversing decisions ...
On March 24, 2021, Michigan Republicans introduced a package of 39 election reform bills that would introduce new restrictions to voting access, [254] targeting in particular forms of voting that were the focus of former president Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election (which focused heavily on Michigan ...
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 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.
Republican lawmakers are undoing bipartisan measures against unjust prison sentences and punitive policies.