...Mr. Boudin, on the other hand, is racking up endorsements from grass-roots liberal groups in the city, and has emerged as a darling among national activists, who see h
He has attracted support from prominent criminal justice system critics like Shaun King, who founded the influential Real Justice PAC and has over a million followers on Twitter, and Larry Krasner, the lawyer who made a career with civil rights suits against the police and then became the top prosecutor in Philadelphia.
...Mr. Boudin was just 14 months old when his parents committed the robbery in New York that sent them to prison. He was raised in Chicago by Bill Ayers, the founder of the Weather Underground, and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, a lawyer, who was also an operative in the group.
...Growing up in that household, he was immersed in the world of leftist politics and groomed to be an overachiever: Yale. Rhodes Scholar. Yale Law School. “I lived in parallel worlds,” he once wrote. “My family taught me radical politics from the beginning, but I also learned to prove myself in elite institutions.”
....He has disavowed, but sought to understand, his parents’ embrace of violence in pursuit of social change. “There was a tremendous amount of political energy and activity during that time,” he said, “and they were caught up in it. And I think they were led astray and they ended up participating in some things which I know they regret.”
Some people did some things.