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BarryDonegan
01-26-2016, 01:39 PM
http://truthinmedia.com/cotton-lobbying-hawks-to-vote-against-criminal-justice-reform/


Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is attempting to lobby law-and-order hawks in the Senate to turn against a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill backed by ideological strange bedfellows like the Koch brothers and President Barack Obama.

Brian4Liberty
01-26-2016, 01:47 PM
Republicans Try to Torpedo Sentencing Reform (https://reason.com/blog/2016/01/26/republicans-try-to-torpedo-sentencing-re)
Need another reason to resent the GOP-run Congress? Try Tom Cotton (and Ted Cruz).
By Matt Welch | Jan. 26, 2016


It's not enough that they're blowing the long-term debt and deficit sky high (by ditching sequestration cuts, boosting spending, cramming unseemlies into omnibuses, and just waving away the debt ceiling like an irksome gnat), but now the Republicans who control both houses of Congress are gathering forces to undermine one of their last chances to not be terrible: criminal justice reform.

As Anthony Fisher wrote about this morning, reform is a thing that's happening around the country as we speak. But the long-promised payout of these efforts, a bipartisan mandatory minimum rollback designed for the legacy-seeking pen of President Barack Obama, is being threatened by surveillance-loving interventionist nightmare Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).
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The turnabout ju-jitsu from Ted Cruz, who once could be accurately described as a criminal justice reformer, is especially galling. A new Atlantic piece describes how the Texas Tea Partier plunged the knife into the ribs of his best friend in the Senate, bill sponsor Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah):
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When I interviewed the reform-supporting Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) two weeks ago about potential obstacles to the legislation, he said the biggest impediments were coming from his own team:
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More: https://reason.com/blog/2016/01/26/republicans-try-to-torpedo-sentencing-re