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Assessments and concerns regarding Biden Administration's early criminal justice efforts This past week brought the end of the first 100 days of Joe Biden's presidency along with a big speech from Prez Biden to Congress.  In this prior post, I lamented a bit that the big speech did not devote much attention to criminal justice reform issues.  And here is a round-up of some recent articles and commentary reviewing the work of the first 100 days and urging the Biden team to lean into criminal justice issues more:

Print this article As Sen. Tim Scott prepares to give the GOP response to President Joe Biden’s address, the Senate’s only black Republican finds himself integral to a most intense and important debate. At the furthest ideological ends of the police reform "discussion," the Left wants to defund and destroy law enforcement. Similarly, many Republicans seem to want stories about police killings to just go away, including far-right "nationalist" conservatives who actively work against the idea that criminal justice or police reform is even needed. Scott is in the position of understanding h...

Tweet Congress appears willing to consider more police oversight legislation, however, there’s still major disagreement on qualified immunity reform. Qualified immunity protects officers from civil lawsuits in certain interactions with civilians. This horrible idea excuses bad behavior from officers, and other government officials, through a carve-out of the Fourth Amendment. The disagreement falls along political party lines. “I always listen to everybody’s proposal, but what I’m not going to do is put our law enforcement community in a position that they’ve got to second-guess ...

Jennifer Van Laar/RedState If this headline had cropped up at any point before January 20th of this year it likely wouldn’t have created much of a stir outside of NeverTrump circles on social media. But during the Biden administration, it’s a very different story. Writing at Reason Magazine, Billy Binion describes the story of Baudilia “Lilly” Cavazos and her family, who own roughly 150 acres of land along the United States border with Mexico in Hidalgo County, Texas. But as of this week, they will own a bit less of it. The federal government prevailed in court and will immediately se...

The removal of Chris Harrison as host of the "Bachelor" franchise is a quintessential example of how "ridiculous" cancel culture has become, critics tell Fox News.