JACK HUNTER, RARE EDITOR | POSTED ON FEBRUARY 15, 2016 2:04 PM
Rare Politics asked Rand Paul on Friday, “What will the rest of this election look like without the liberty message?”
Paul replied, “If people will talk about criminal justice reform—I’m afraid that issue’s gone from the presidential primary.”
Is he right?
The Huffington Post published a story Monday titled, “Republican Candidates Have Little To Say About Criminal Justice.”
From HuffPo:
As president, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders would expand the federal government’s role in reforming criminal justice across the country, they told The Huffington Post in answer to a 20-question survey last month.
What would the Republican candidates do? They didn’t say…
Ben Carson’s campaign had planned to take part, but eventually backed out.
Marco Rubio’s campaign sent over a link to a 2015 essay he wrote that focused mainly on rolling back federal regulations… He has not detailed what his administration would do in the area of criminal justice reform.
Ted Cruz… has sometimes been on board with federal sentencing reforms, but hasn’t presented a clear picture of what his administration would do on other issues of criminal justice.
Donald Trump has dubbed law enforcement officers “the most mistreated people in America…” He’s offered little indication that he believes there are any major problems in the criminal justice system to be fixed.
Jeb Bush has gone through somewhat of an evolution on criminal justice and signed onto the Right on Crime statement of principles… But when asked about the tension between police and communities last month, the former Florida governor suggested that Justice Department involvement could increase distrust and then pivoted to talking about black-on-black crime.
continued...http://rare.us/story/with-rand-paul-...form-gone-too/
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