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Cory Booker is a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey, serving since 2013. The former Newark mayor (2006-2013) sits on the Senate Judiciary and Foreign Relations committees. A Stanford and Yale Law graduate, he ran unsuccessfully for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and remains a prominent progressive voice on criminal justice reform.