President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner reportedly met with key senators on Thursday morning to discuss stalled efforts at criminal justice reform.

Kushner was seen entering Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley Charles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleySenate Republicans face tough decision on replacing Ginsburg What Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Biden says Ginsburg successor should be picked by candidate who wins on Nov. 3 MORE's (R-Iowa) office on Thursday morning, and Sen. Mike Lee Michael (Mike) Shumway LeeMcConnell shores up GOP support for coronavirus package McConnell tries to unify GOP Davis: The Hall of Shame for GOP senators who remain silent on Donald Trump MORE (R-Utah), who supports criminal justice reform, walked in soon after that, BuzzFeed News reported.

Kushner was reportedly speaking to the lawmakers about legislation that stalled last year in the previous Congress. But Grassley and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin Richard (Dick) Joseph DurbinMcConnell focuses on confirming judicial nominees with COVID-19 talks stalled Senate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Top GOP senator calls for Biden to release list of possible Supreme Court picks MORE (Ill.) have both expressed interest in introducing a new bill in the 115th Congress.

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BuzzFeed reported that Durbin also met with Kushner on Thursday. The meetings could be an early signal that the White House is open to discussing a criminal justice overhaul.

On the campaign trail, President Trump frequently promoted himself as the "law and order" candidate, promising to crack down on crime and provide expanded support for law enforcement officials.

That platform, however, ultimately killed support for the Senate's reform legislation. What's more, Trump's appointment of Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE as attorney general was taken as a signal that criminal justice reform would be unlikely under his administration, because of the former Alabama senator's firm opposition to the matter.

Grassley told BuzzFeed in January that tackling the issue would be easier since the election was over.

“I wouldn’t say there’s not going to be any problems because you’re starting over again,” he said. “But ... the election had more to do with it than anything else.”