Those two possibilities -- both instances of "owning the libs to please my base" -- seem like the only plausible explanations for his plan to put a known, confessed, convicted killer back on the streets among a law-abiding public whose population that killer has already reduced by one.
If Abbott was a Democratic governor pulling these kind of shenanigans in the name of "criminal justice reform," Republicans would rightly have his hide.
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