Posted on 07/11/2021 4:56:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Biden is under pressure to expand his criminal justice reform efforts to include the dozens of U.S. attorney offices across the country that prosecute federal crimes.
Advocates have applauded Biden's criminal justice agenda, such as his plans to increase the number of former public defenders on the federal bench, but stress that the same priorities should be applied when selecting prosecutors to oversee the country's 93 districts.
Rachel Barkow, a professor at the New York University School of Law, says that because of the power that prosecutors wield, Biden’s appointments could make or break his reform agenda.
“It wouldn't be enough to just focus on the courts as the place where you're committed to diversifying and getting a reform minded perspective in there,” Barkow said. “You absolutely have to have the same attitude when it comes to the U.S. attorneys’ posts.”
“You can't have a reform agenda, like the one that you committed to on the campaign trail, if you don't have people in those offices who are going to carry that out,” she added.
With more and more cities electing progressive district attorneys who campaigned on reducing mass incarceration, reformers are pushing Biden to follow suit and pick a new breed of federal prosecutors.
In March, a coalition of advocacy groups sent a letter to Biden calling on him to nominate federal prosecutors “capable of delivering fair sentencing, rearranging prosecutorial priorities and rooting out misconduct.”
Administrations of both parties have historically tapped career prosecutors and attorneys from prestigious law firms to fill U.S. attorney positions around the country, a trend that critics argue has cemented a tough-on-crime culture that is increasingly at odds with the nation’s evolving views on criminal justice.
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“Biden’s criminal justice agenda, such as his plans to increase the number of former public defenders on the federal bench”
His “criminal justice” agenda is to put the criminals in charge of the courts.
Insanity.
Prob anti white ones like the rest of Dem party
While confirmation might be an issue, I think we can trust our RINOs to get ‘er done.
New breed?
ie) radical tranny socialists with zero regard for the law.
Oh, I thought it was a dead squirrel that got into a heat duct and rotted. That happened once in the ceiling of a building where I worked. Oddly horrible and nauseating stench.
Fits Soros, though.
Of course. Ones that will think Lori Lightfoot and Maxine Waters are too conservative and by the book for their liking.
The brown shirt federal prosecutors will be geared toward pursuing citizens that oppose liberal mandates.
Come here sister.....Papa’s in the swing
He ain’t too hip...about that new breed babe
He ain’t no drag
Papa’s got a brand new bag
“Advocates have applauded Biden’s criminal justice agenda.”
Typical bootlicking crap from the scum at The Hill.
I think
Inmates and communists have applauded Biden’s criminal justice agenda.”
would be more accurate.
Making sure they have high sociopathic scores. Also membership in church of Satan are a plus.
The old ones in trumps administration where pro Biden…how more left wing do they want?
That worked out so well for San Francisco, when for the first time when they elected Terrance Hallinan, a defense attorney, in 1995.
Hallinan was the first defense attorney to become the lead prosecutor in San Francisco. He immediately stopped prosecuting crimes, scoring the lowest winning percentage for a California DA by the time of his reelection in 1999.
Hallinan was defeated in the 2003 election by Kamala Harris, and the city has been on an irreversible track ever since.
Hallinan was a thug who settled personal differences with fistfights even into adulthood. Despite that, he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and then the the District Attorney's office twice.
Hallinan's long-time aide was Ross Mirkarimi, who eventually became the Sheriff of San Francisco. Mirkarimi was accused of domestic abuse by his wife and later by another woman.
San Francisco seems to have turned away from having prosecutors who prosecute towards defenders of criminals in the DA role.
And now the Left wants the Biden administration to follow this model at the federal level. I expect the same results to follow. It will be San Francisco at the national level.
-PJ
Yes, we're definitely in need for more homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals, cross-sexuals, this-sexuals and that-sexuals in the courthouse and in the classrooms, in the sports and in the children's library.. What we need a lot more of is black communist Jew women with wooden legs just to make things more fair and equable... (sniff)
My first thought.
S0r0$ is puttin’ on the squeeze.
Post 4
No /s needed. True stmt
No enforcement of black and brown crime and whites are treated as terrorists.
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