The Washington Post: Trump administration's proposed hiring requirement alarms criminal justice reform advocates on left and right
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“If you’re going to throw up obstacles to these individuals, you’re opposed to second chances for everyone,” said Holly Harris, former general counsel to the Kentucky Republican Party and executive director of the Justice Action Network, a bipartisan criminal justice reform group. “There’s a dearth of skilled labor in this country.”
Harris called the administration’s defense of its proposal a “word salad that’s attempting to justify something that’s unjustifiable.”
“Someone is attempting to undermine the president’s commitment to second chances,” she said. “It’s unfathomable that anyone in this administration would do this, and yet it’s been done.”