It's easy to make fun of Sen. 'Tehran Tom' Cotton (R-AR) for his asinine flub (or was it gaslighting) during the Senate's Judiciary Committee hearing for Nina Morrison. Morrison is President Joe Biden's pick for U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and she's spent years as an attorney for The Innocence Project, helping to free 30 innocent people from prison and death row.
So, naturally, Cotton is objecting to her nomination, claiming she's responsible for putting criminals back out on the street. That's not all, though. He's claiming the bipartisan prison reform bill, the First Step Act was — get this — the evildoing of the Democrats.
"It's your party that voted in lockstep for the First Step Act. That let thousands of violent felons back on the street, who have now committed innumerable violent crimes," whined Cotton.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) wasn't about to let that one slide, and jumped in, "First Step Act? The Democrats did the First Step Act? The Republicans were in the majority. It was a bill sponsored by Senator Grassley, Durbin, Lee, and many others, and who signed it into law? Donald Trump signed it into law, this so-called Democratic measure."
Trying to save face, Cotton sputtered, "To respond to the senator from Illinois, yes it's true that President Trump signed the First Step Act. The First Step Act was the worst mistake of the Trump administration," said Cotton.
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