President Trump speaks at the 2019 Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 1, 2019. As of 8 p.m. Tuesday, the last day for public input on the move, the proposal had received nearly 3,500 comments. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. penned a letter to Weichert on Tuesday voicing his opposition to the plan. We should focus on their future, not their past, and ban questions about diversion in the federal hiring process,” he wrote. A coalition of groups representing prosecutors, public defenders, criminal justice advocates and state and local governments is also urging the Trump administration to withdraw the proposal.

Source: Washington Post April 24, 2019 00:45 UTC