The New York Times: Quandary for 2020 Democrats: Which Criminal Justice Changes Get Priority?

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It is, of course, possible to include all of these measures in a single, comprehensive piece of criminal justice legislation, but huge bills are difficult to pass. And if there is a need to compromise to get a bill across the finish line, priorities will come into play.

This was the reality the Justice Action Network — a bipartisan coalition of bedfellows as strange as the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, and Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, a conservative group — had in mind when it asked the Democratic candidates to identify, for instance, the first criminal justice legislation they would propose, the first executive action they would take, and their top priority among several bills pending in Congress.

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“In 2016, people were talking about things like drug courts and treatment for nonviolent offenders and very small-potatoes things,” Ms. Chettiar said. “The energy and the boldness of these reforms is very exciting. It was almost unthinkable four years ago that this would be the case now.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/us/politics/Criminal-justice-2020-Democrats.html