Christie Offering Proposals To Alter Criminal Justice System

As President Obama tours a federal prison in Oklahoma on Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie is set to unveil a plan of his own to reform parts of the nation’s criminal justice system.

Christie’s super PAC said Tuesday it’s raised $11 million since being formed in February, far under amounts raised by several other GOP candidates and the groups supporting them, including Jeb Bush’s $114 million, Ted Cruz’s $51 million and Marco Rubio’s $44 million. But crime rates have fallen sharply in the past two years after a Christie-backed deal replaced the city’s police force with a larger county-run one focused on having officers get to know the residents better. Police play football with children and sometimes hand out free ice cream. “What I would do as president is immediately meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu and try to fix this relationship that this president has so callously broken”. Hogan said he has six more rounds of chemotherapy scheduled. He signed bail reform legislation past year that, coupled with a voter-approved amendment to the state constitution, allows judges to release people who commit minor, non-violent crimes without bail.

“The protection of the state of Israel has to be a top priority of the president of the United States of America,” Christie said.

Ex-Maryland Rep. Larry Hogan Sr., father of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, greeting Governor Christie on Wednesday during a campaign stop in Annapolis. Under a program he championed, nonviolent drug-addicted offenders in New Jersey can be sentenced to mandatory participation in drug treatment programs instead of jail time. That is not the case in New Jersey.

Christie, a Republican who formally announced his candidacy June 30, hasn’t disclosed fund-raising totals for his campaign. “People are responding to Gov. Christie’s strength, substance and willingness to tell it like it is”.

The approach, while new to New Jersey, is similar to what federal courts already do. He said it’s a fair question for interviewers to ask, but the law at least keeps job-seekers with criminal histories from being eliminated for consideration before they have a chance to explain themselves.

The Republican governor will give a policy speech on the topic at a community center in Camden, New Jersey, emphasizing his background as a former US attorney.