lol "They are supposed to run for office by promising to stop carjackings or put meth dealers in prison." They certainly aren't supposed to promise to go after white collar criminals or entitled dipshits who openly brag that their laptops are full of evidence of fraud!
WSJ editorial page when politicians talk about going after criminals: 🙂
WSJ editorial page when politicians talk about going after criminal politicians: 🙁
I mean, it's the general problem of elected sheriffs, prosecutors, and judges which is why the rest of the world generally doesn't do that kind of thing. It's just weird that conservatives seem to be all for it if the idea is to elect those positions to go after minorities.
Yup. Just look at the extensive symbiotic historical relationship between elected "hanging judges" and the KKK.
The judiciary is supposed to be the bulwark protecting the individual rights of the unpopular against the tyranny of mob rule. That doesn't happen when the mob elects the judges.
This is a Bragg W and is exactly the rule of law in action. New York constituents deserve an attorney for the people who vigorously pursues the community's most powerful and prolific criminals.
right exactly. campaigning is being coded as aesthetically gauche in the quoted WSJ piece, and I think an affirmative case can be made that targeting prolific criminals an essential aspect of a just society.
There's a big difference between promising to go after political opponents and claiming you have the courage to prosecute obvious crimes, even when committed by powerful politicians.
Trump is also being prosecuted over things most of us would know is illegal, not obscure technicalities.
I'm not for a moment arguing that Bragg shouldn't have pursued Trump, I'm suggesting that those who say he "campaigned on it" (an exaggeration I think) might have a leg to stand on.
story isn't really "guy does something sinister" but "guy tries to use his gladhanding networks to get his friend a job, which is normal in those networks, and not only does she entirely predictably not get the job, this entirely predictably makes her poison with the voters she wants to appeal to"
"In states like New York, prosecutors are supposed to run for office by promising to [crack down on blacks and Hispanics - CUT - INSERT:] stop carjackings or put meth dealers in prison [, not convict white people of financial crimes - CUT]"
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by separate yet equally important groups. The police who investigate street-level crime and the district attorneys who prosecute only those offenders. These are their stories.
hmmmm.... if this made up scenario to try to justify the prosecution of a career criminal is considered a horror unto itself, i imagine this esteemed author's head would explode if he knew about us chanting "lock him up" at every campaign event prior to his election as DA. Oh, wait - that wasn't us😒
I love that this person's complaining about prosecutors being elected would likely find no problem with elected sheriffs and prosecutors historically in the South doing terrible things to the populace.
You don't have to go back NEARLY that far. See, for example, the recent ex-sheriff of Phoenix, Joe Arpaio. Who, oh yeah, Donald Trump pardoned despite several convictions and even worse that he wasn't officially convicted of.
Monday, Jon Stewart had supposedly anti-Trump Rep. Ken Buck on, and he made exactly this accusation, multiple times, in addition to claiming the voters in both parties were sick of their candidate.
