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Cartoonist

(7,317 posts) Fri Oct 25, 2019, 02:55 PM Oct 2019

Is this real?

https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article236642838.html

President Donald Trump will join South Carolina’s U.S. Sen. Tim Scott and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris when he receives the Bipartisan Justice Award on Friday ahead of his remarks at Benedict College, an historic black college in Columbia.

A White House official said Friday that Trump will receive the Bipartisan Justice Award, “the highest honor given yearly to a public servant who demonstrated the ability to work across the aisle to achieve meaningful progress reforming” the federal criminal justice system.

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Is this real? (Original Post) Cartoonist Oct 2019 OP

He's getting credit for signing the First Step Act I think. LaurenOlimina Oct 2019 #1

It appears so! UFB! Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2019 #2

UFB? Unidentified Flying Bull... nt List left Oct 2019 #3

Close! Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2019 #4

LaurenOlimina

(1,165 posts)

1. He's getting credit for signing the First Step Act I think.

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 02:58 PM

Oct 2019

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/politics/first-step-act-prisoners-released-doj/index.html

"Nearly 3,100 federal inmates will walk out of prison on Friday as a provision of the sweeping criminal justice reform act passed by Congress takes effect.

The mass release -- the largest since the First Step Act was signed into law after a rare bipartisan push last year -- applies mostly to drug offenders and inmates serving sentences for weapons charges. It was initiated by a recalculation of the number of days inmates accrue each year for good behavior that was applied retroactively under the new law."