Kushner credited for pushing rare bipartisan bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jared Kushner is being credited this week for helping to spearhead what could be the first major bipartisan legislative success of the Trump era: a first-in-a-generation criminal justice overhaul.

Liberal and conservative groups alike have praised President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser for his efforts, despite ongoing skepticism and opposition by some of those same groups to much of the Trump administration's policy agenda.

For Kushner, it's a deeply personal issue. His father went to prison when he was younger, and he says that experience shaped him.

He tells The Associated Press: "When you're on the other side of the system, you feel so helpless" and that he wanted to try to make a difference when he got to Washington.