Good Thursday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today.

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• President Trump threw his support behind a substantial rewrite of the nation’s prison and sentencing laws on Wednesday, opening a potential path to enacting the most significant criminal justice overhaul in a generation. Read the story and six takeaways on what the rewrite would do.

• From immigration to tax cuts, there is very little that Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on these days. But there may be one thing: the need to repair the criminal justice system.

• Thousands of ballots have been rejected in Florida because voters’ signatures don’t match what’s on file, and Democrats are calling it disenfranchisement. Here’s more on the status of the ballots.