Trump defied the odds to win a criminal justice victory in his first term. Could he do it again?

In the fall of 2018, I stood in the White House as President Donald Trump endorsed the First Step Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at reforming federal sentencing and modernizing our outdated prison system. As a lifelong Democrat and human rights attorney, I never imagined working with Trump on this cause. But I knew the stakes: my family, like millions of others, had been devastated by our justice system’s harsh sentencing laws and lack of rehabilitative opportunities — policies that trap countless Americans in cycles of poverty...