President-elect Trump has been accused of countless things, but never of being predictable.
Criminal justice policy is a case in point. Few could have anticipated that landmark prison reform stymied under prior administrations, even President Obama, would be enacted in President Trump’s first term.
Not only that, but around Thanksgiving 2018 Trump leaned on then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to hold a vote on the First Step Act, a move the senator was reluctant...