Why we're celebrating a three-month-old law | By Van Jones and Jessica Jackson for CNNOpinion
CNN host Van Jones and Jessica Jackson are co-founders of #cut50, a bipartisan criminal justice initiative of the Dream Corps. The opinions expressed in this commentary are the authors' own. View more opinion at CNN.
You don't have to be a hardcore sports fan to understand that no team should be celebrating victory after only the first quarter of a game. Reasonable people might ask, then, at this early stage, why did the Trump administration host a First Step Act celebration just three months after passing the landmark criminal justice bill?
What was there to celebrate and what is left to be done? Plenty in both cases. By way of review, the First Step Act was the big bipartisan success story of 2018. Liberals like Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Dick Durbin joined with conservatives like Rep. Doug Collins and Sen. Chuck Grassley. We both got personally involved as advocates through cut50.org, a bipartisan reform group that we co-founded during the Obama administration.
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