Originally posted on Friends of Justice:
I bet you didn’t know Ted Cruz was a criminal justice reformer, but it’s true. It rarely benefits his partisan agenda to beat the reform drum, but in this essay written for the Brennan Center for Justice, he lays out some excellent policy suggestions.
How do we account for such enlightened prose from a man who is normally dismissed as a narrow-minded bigot?
First, Cruz is smart. They don’t let dummies on the Princeton debate team. Secondly, the junior senator from Texas understands that the deep flaws in our criminal justice system could be turned on conservative Christians if anyone had a mind to do so. I doubt this is likely, but when you live on the losing side of the culture war a measure of paranoia comes with the territory.
Here’s Ted’s critique of the demise of the jury trial. I encourage you to read the entire essay.
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