WATCH: Goodlatte to Discuss Criminal Justice Reform Efforts at The Atlantic

Washington, D.C. – Today at 8:30 a.m., House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) will join The Atlantic’s Washington Editor-at-Large Steve Clemons for a discussion on the Committee’s bipartisan criminal justice reform initiative.  The House Judiciary Committee has already approved numerous bills to reform federal sentencing laws and rein in the explosion of federal criminal law. The Committee intends to consider additional legislation to address more issues facing the criminal justice system. Watch the discussion live here. Last year, the House Judiciary Committee announced a bipartisan criminal justice reform initiative. The Committee is taking a step-by-step approach to address the issues facing the system, including over-criminalization, sentencing reform, prison and reentry reform, protecting citizens through improved criminal procedures and policing strategies, and civil asset forfeiture reform. The Committee is pursuing common sense criminal justice reforms to make sure our federal laws and regulations effectively and appropriately punish wrongdoers, protect individual freedom, safeguard civil liberties, work as efficiently and fairly as possible, do not impede state efforts, and do not waste taxpayer dollars.  

To learn more about the House Judiciary Committee’s bipartisan criminal justice reform initiative, click here.