Jerry Brown is leaving office next Monday after serving as governor of California longer than any other person. But after a political career over 50 years, is the 80-year-old Democrat ready to ride away quietly into the sunset? It seems unlikely. One safe bet is that he’ll try to defend the criminal justice reforms he shepherded in; a 2020 ballot measure is looking to undo some of them. “In my view, it’s deeply anti-Christian, because it denies redemption,” the governor said. “And redemption is at the heart of our whole civilization.”
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