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Activist and CNN host Van Jones credited reality TV star Kim Kardashian on Friday for helping move the president on the issue of criminal justice reform.

President Donald Trump will welcome over a dozen Americans to join him at the State of the Union address on Tuesday to highlight his priorities for the country. The President and first lady’s guest list features family members of an

“Today, as we pause to mark the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we recommit ourselves to the advancement of equality and justice for all Americans, and to the full realization of his worthy dream,” Trump wrote in his proclamation.

“We were their lobbyists, we fought for these people and together we were able to make something happen,” he said.

The House passed the Senate version of the First Step Act, a criminal justice bill, on Thursday, sending it to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature.

The passage of the First Step Act, the prison reform bill backed by President Donald Trump, in the Senate on Tuesday “proved we can come together as a country,” a senior White House official told Breitbart News on Wednesday.

CNN commentator and left-wing activist Van Jones celebrated the passing of the Senate’s version of the justice reform bill this week adding that it is all thanks to Kim Kardashian.

The First Step Act, if signed into law by President Trump, would reduce the federal prison population by 53,000 inmates, the CBO reveals.

The text of the latest version of the First Step Act, being circulated by proponents to law enforcement groups and obtained by Breitbart News, still allows a number of violent criminals early release under the program.

“Go for it Mitch!” Trump wrote on Twitter, describing the First Step Act bill as “extremely popular” and endorsed by both Republicans and Democrats.

The Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, the media conglomerate which includes Fox News, has endorsed wide-sweeping prison reform legislation.

The vast majority of Senate Republicans do not support the so-called FIRST STEP Act, a White House-backed criminal justice reform bill, Breitbart News has learned.

The FIRST STEP Act, a White House-endorsed U.S. Senate criminal justice reform bill, would allow for the early release of people convicted of female genital mutilations, emails between Justice Department and Senate GOP officials obtained exclusively by Breitbart News show.

A Republican U.S. Senate document circulating among GOP offices opposed to the so-called FIRST STEP Act, a criminal justice reform bill making its way through Capitol Hill, lists 20 violent crimes that would be eligible for early release under the legislation.

Black conservatives spent Monday on Capitol Hill lobbying senators to pass criminal justice reform legislation.

A group of black conservatives spent Wednesday lobbying senators in support of criminal justice reform through the First Step Act.

The president is hosting the event in Biloxi, Mississippi while hosting two other campaign rallies in the state for Cindy Hyde-Smith on Monday.

Charlie Kirk told Breitbart News that policies included within the First Step Act have been “proven to work” in Texas.

Rand Paul told Breitbart News that “many prisons have been overcrowded” with “non-violent drug offenders” in a Wednesday interview.

In the 2016 presidential election, “Law and order” became a hallmark of President Trump’s campaign, wherein he would routinely blast weak-on-crime politicians.

A prison reform plan supported by both political establishments, the billionaire Koch brothers, the ACLU, and President Trump will make it more difficult to deport criminal foreigners in United States prisons, experts say. 

The GOP megadonor billionaire Koch brothers are set to seal another policy victory with President Trump’s announcement that he will sign a prison reform bill that is opposed by his base of supporters, conservatives, and law enforcement officials.

Conservative leaders are asking President Trump to oppose prison reform legislation, telling him to “trust” his instincts and calling the bill “prison release.”

The House passed a prison reform bill on Tuesday that would expand prison work programs that provide job training for prisoners at the taxpayers’ expense.