Prominent liberal Democrats opposed 2018's criminal justice reform, and CNN progressive commentator Van Jones thinks he knows why.
John Lewis and Sheila Jackson Lee on a May 2017 letter calling the First Step Act "a step backwards."
"I think publicly they were saying it doesn't go far enough," Jones said in a video played at the winter Koch Seminar Sunday morning.
The bill was prominently championed by an unlikely alliance of Jones, billionaire industrialist Charles Koch's libertarian network, President Donald Trump's son in law Jared Kushner, Kim Kardashian West and Utah Sen. Mike Lee.
The first 2019 meeting of Koch's Seminar Network brings together allied leaders and organizations with 634 "Partners," or donors who give $100,000 or more per year, and over 100 new attendees.
The libertarian network, which is made up of largely center-right, conservative and Republican donors, is frequently hit by players on the left and the right, with President Trump targeting them for opposition to his trade and immigration agenda in tweets sent during their July meeting.
Jones had protested the Koch Seminar Network in 2011, when its opposition to President Barack Obama and his government take-over of health care were a major target of Koch and his allies.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/27/van-jones-john-lewis-sheila-jackson-lee-criminal-justice-reform-trump/
John Lewis and Sheila Jackson Lee on a May 2017 letter calling the First Step Act "a step backwards."
"I think publicly they were saying it doesn't go far enough," Jones said in a video played at the winter Koch Seminar Sunday morning.
The bill was prominently championed by an unlikely alliance of Jones, billionaire industrialist Charles Koch's libertarian network, President Donald Trump's son in law Jared Kushner, Kim Kardashian West and Utah Sen. Mike Lee.
The first 2019 meeting of Koch's Seminar Network brings together allied leaders and organizations with 634 "Partners," or donors who give $100,000 or more per year, and over 100 new attendees.
The libertarian network, which is made up of largely center-right, conservative and Republican donors, is frequently hit by players on the left and the right, with President Trump targeting them for opposition to his trade and immigration agenda in tweets sent during their July meeting.
Jones had protested the Koch Seminar Network in 2011, when its opposition to President Barack Obama and his government take-over of health care were a major target of Koch and his allies.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/27/van-jones-john-lewis-sheila-jackson-lee-criminal-justice-reform-trump/
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