Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) announced on Monday that he and Rep. Morgan McGarvey (D-KY) are reintroducing the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, which would prohibit the use of no-knock warrants nationwide.
“I do this not only because I care about the people behind the door; I also care about the police,” Paul said. “I think it's a very dangerous raid for police to take, and there's a lot of better ways to arrest people that don't involve going in in the middle of the night.”
“There still are emergencies, and all of those do exist, and we'll have emergencies where people do go in very quickly,” Paul continued. “But it shouldn't be the norm. It should be really the exception and only under exceptional emergency conditions when someone's life is being threatened.”
Paul had previously introduced the legislation in 2020, but the bill never made it out of committee. However, the senator expressed optimism that this time around the legislation would pass, with some cooperation between Democrats and Republicans on the bill.
“We have Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) as the Democratic lead in the Senate, and I think it will be a bipartisan bill.”
“I'm very hopeful that this will move forward. I'm sorry that it took the death of Breonna to get everybody unified. But people say, why is there no bipartisanship? Well, we had a terrible tragedy, and now there is,” Paul said. “If there was ever any good that came from this tragedy, I'm hoping that the law will change and that will prevent this from ever happening again.”
