Rand Paul and the Koch Brothers Are Having a Nixon-in-China Moment

Some are trusting Republicans more than Democrats when it comes to undoing bad criminal justice law.
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The question had to be asked, and Van Jones was there to ask it: How would the Koch brothers get rich from prison reform? How would bipartisan criminal justice reform – the cause that had brought Jones together with dozens of organizers for an all-day Washington summit – add to the bottom line?

“Are they gonna make a billion dollars off of this?” asked Jones of Mark Holden, the general counsel of Koch Industries.