Criminal-Justice Reformers Pin Their Hopes on Jared Kushner
On the Hill, the president’s adviser and son-in-law is seen as the best chance to get support from the White House.
You know a policy’s prospects are shaky when lawmakers on both teams are praying for Jared Kushner to ride in and save the day.
Not that Kushner isn’t a swell guy. But Trump’s all-purpose son-in-law already had a pretty full plate (e.g., solving that whole Middle East thing) even before the feds started poking into his relations with Russia. It seems unlikely he’ll have much bandwidth in the coming months to weigh in on Congress’s mundane domestic squabbles.
Which is why advocates of criminal-justice reform might want to take a moment to wave adios to any prospect of action in the foreseeable future.
It’s tragic, really. In today’s hyper-polarized Washington, it’s tough to get bipartisan agreement on where to go for
