{"id":7714,"date":"2022-04-23T12:40:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T12:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7714"},"modified":"2022-04-23T12:40:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T12:40:42","slug":"the-republican-party-is-still-fractured-on-criminal-justice-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7714","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Party is still fractured on criminal justice reform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Recent progress on criminal justice reform indicates that there\u2019s still bipartisan interest in narrower policies.<br>Republicans\u2019 backing for the Equal Act \u2014 a pretty limited bill \u2014 is still significant. It\u2019s not yet clear if the legislation will move forward in the Senate, though it now has sufficient Republican support.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past, Republicans have similarly been open to very targeted policies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The First Step Act, for example, enables just a subset of federal inmates to shorten their sentences. Other more ambitious reforms, meanwhile, have floundered.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23003734\/jackson-supreme-court-hearing-republicans-crime\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23003734\/jackson-supreme-court-hearing-republicans-crime<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Recent progress on criminal justice reform indicates that there\u2019s still bipartisan interest in narrower policies.<br \/>\nRepublicans\u2019 backing for the Equal Act \u2014 a pretty limited bill \u2014 is still significant. It\u2019s not yet clear if the legislation will move forward in the Senate, though it now has sufficient Republican support.   <\/p>\n<p>In the past, Republicans have similarly been open to very targeted policies.<br \/>\nThe First Step Act, for example, enables just a subset of federal inmates to shorten their sentences. Other more ambitious reforms, meanwhile, have floundered.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,280,906,36,968],"class_list":["post-7714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-criminal-justice","tag-legislation","tag-reform","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}