Cory Booker Has His Own Mass Incarceration Problem

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall

Senator Cory Booker’s been going after former Vice-President Joe Biden for weeks now, hoping to portray the Democrat frontrunner as an impediment to civil rights throughout his long political career; from busing in the 70s to his support for the 1994 crime bill. It’s suddenly become conventional wisdom on the Left that the crime bill was a bad thing that led to mass incarceration (Kamala Harris has also attacked Biden over the bill), though they still like the part that banned semi-automatic rifles and shotguns defined as “assault weapons”.

Booker’s latest Twitter broadside against Biden promises huge changes if he’s elected. The criminal justice system as we know it will be “dismantled”!

It’s not enough to tell us what you’re going to do for our communities, show us what you’ve done for the last 40 years. You created this system. We’ll dismantle it.

— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) July 23, 2019

No, he won’t dismantle the system. Under Booker’s proposals, cannabis would be legalized, mandatory minimum sentences would disappear, as would the death penalty. He promises “reform” of the juvenile justice system, and a new policy that doesn’t treat rock cocaine more …Read the Rest

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