Top Trump adviser Jared Kushner is winning bipartisan praise for driving a 20-year effort to reform prison sentencing and criminal justice to the finish line and ignoring repeated declarations that it was dead right up to last week.

Liberal and conservative advocates for justice reform are giving Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, credit for cobbling together — despite his inexperience in Washington and with politics — an unlikely coalition that has the package on the verge of Senate passage.