“Next week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to consider the nomination of William Barr to be the next attorney general of the United States will be an important test of the Trump administration’s commitment to goals of the recently enacted Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act, commonly known as the FIRST STEP Act, is a bipartisan criminal justice reform legislative package. Unfortunately, from what we know of Barr, President Trump has already failed the exam.”