Updates | The Week of June 12, 2017

Advocates of criminal justice reform are looking to Jared Kushner for support (The Atlantic).

Criminal-justice reformers are refocusing their efforts locally, in light of federal opposition from the Trump Administration (Buzzfeed News).

The Department of Justice is turning away from consent decrees as part of the Trump administration’s pullback from federal civil rights enforcement, notes Jessica Huseman and Annie Waldman at ABAJournal.

President Trump has announced the nomination of his first group of candidates for United States attorney positions (ABA Journal, NYT).

After Rep. Gabby Giffords’ shooting and the mass shooting in Newtown didn’t move the dial on gun control, Democrats are wary of reviving the debate after the shooting in Virginia today (Politico).

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