Sen. Cory Booker appeared to dismiss Joe Biden’s new plan to combat mass incarceration and disparities in the criminal justice system
to combat mass incarceration and disparities in the criminal justice system, writing in a Tuesday morning tweet that did not name the former vice president that promises are “not enough.”
“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,” Booker wrote in what appeared to be a subtweet of his Democratic 2020 rival. “You created this system. We’ll dismantle it.”Biden released a proposal Tuesday that includes reforming the juvenile justice system, eliminating discrepancies in sentencing between convictions related to powder and crack cocaine, scrapping mandatory minimum sentences, and ending the death penalty.
Parts of the plan is a shift from his previous stances as a tough-on-crime Democrat in the 1990s, a record that has drawn attacks from fellow candidates and progressives.
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