Posted on July 25, 2019
by Paul Mirengoff
Democrats race to the bottom on criminal justice reform
In the second round of Democratic presidential debates, Joe Biden will share the stage with Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. This means double-trouble for the former vice president.
Biden’s biggest vulnerability isn’t his opposition, nearly 50 years ago, to busing school children for reasons of race. His biggest vulnerability in terms of policy is his support in the early 1990s for the stiff sentencing of criminals.
The legislation that Biden helped enact is probably the most successful government undertaking since we made it to the moon in 1969. It helped produce the massive shrinkage of the crime rate without which the current stampede to lenient sentencing would be unsustainable.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/democrats-race-to-the-bottom-on-criminal-justice-reform.php
