So much for the GOP being champions of criminal justice. As long as there are people like Cotton it doesn't much matter if one or two GOPer's support criminal justice reform, because it's the Cotton types who are taking over as the GOP leadership.
So Tim Scott and Donald Trump's efforts are thwarted by Cotton, Sessions, Kerik, and Giuliani's old-school "lock em up" strategy?
By the way, Cotton has a lot of support from law enforcement:
The all-male roundtable turned into a venting session for various grievances.
"It's like a trend for people to resist officers," said Timon Aikawi, a police officer, adding that people "look at us as the bad guy, or they start recording halfway through."
Cotton used precise militaristic terms when responding to officers expressing their dismay at rioting in American cities and their view that the news media underestimates antifa.
"One of the best ways to avoid the necessary use of force in a setting like that with potential rioting and looting is to have an overwhelming display of force from the beginning to make it clear to the criminal element who may be infiltrating those protesters that you'll brook no violence against persons or property whatsoever," he said.
https://twitter.com/mowers/status/1318228563565420552https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-cotton-laying-groundwork-2024-presidential-run-new-hampshire-2020-10
