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2022-06-25 -Great Cultural Revolution

Prosecutors Who Won't Enforce Anti-Abortion Laws

This is a statement by 82 prosecutors who say they won't prosecute violations of state anti-abortion laws 'cause they don't like 'em. The Profiles In Courage Award goes to Multnomah County (Portland) DA Mike Schmidt, who signed the statement even though he works in a jurisdiction where there are no anti-abortion laws to enforce.
[FAIRANDJUSTPROSECUTION] We are a group of elected prosecutors representing communities across every region of the country. Over the past few years, we have watched with increasing concern as the constitutional right to abortion has been threatened and eroded. Now, the Supreme Court’s decision to end the federally protected constitutional right to abortion first established five decades ago in Roe v. Wade — a right that three generations of Americans have come of age relying upon — means that abortions will immediately or soon be banned, and potentially criminalized, in at least half of our nation’s states.

As elected prosecutors, ministers of justice, and leaders in our communities, we cannot stand by and allow members of our community to live in fear of the ramifications of this deeply troubling decision.

Not all of us agree on a personal or moral level on the issue of abortion. But we stand together in our firm belief that prosecutors have a responsibility to refrain from using limited criminal legal system resources to criminalize personal medical decisions. As such, we decline to use our offices’ resources to criminalize reproductive health decisions and commit to exercise our well- settled discretion and refrain from prosecuting those who seek, provide, or support abortions.

Prosecutors are entrusted with immense discretion. With this discretion comes the obligation to seek justice. And at the heart of the pursuit of justice is the furtherance of policies and practices that protect the well-being and safety of all members of our community.

Prosecutors make decisions every day about how to allocate limited resources and which cases to prosecute. Indeed, our communities have entrusted us to use our best judgment in deciding how and if to leverage the criminal legal system to further the safety and well-being of all, and we are ethically bound to pursue those interests in every case.

Enforcing abortion bans runs counter to the obligations and interests we are sworn to uphold. It will erode trust in the legal system, hinder our ability to hold perpetrators accountable, take resources away from the enforcement of serious crime, and inevitably lead to the retraumatization and criminalization of victims of sexual violence.
So, prosecutors get to veto acts of the state legislatures if they disagree with the acts. Perhaps they could at least give us a list of criminal statutes they will enforce. Is armed robbery still, like, a bad thing?

The list of signatures at the end of the document is probably a one-for-one match with the list of Soros foundation grantees. Worth scanning to see if you know any of them and can vote them out in November, dear Reader.

Posted by Matt 2022-06-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 I believe that as the court handed the issue back to the states, this too becomes a state issue. I'm sure the usual suspects (CA, NY, IL, WA, OR) will let it play. I suspect that in other states the legislature will enact laws for the removal of such people from office for what amounts to 'delectation of duty'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-25 08:14|| 2022-06-25 08:14|| Front Page Top

the legislature will enact laws for the removal of such people from office for what amounts to 'delectation of duty'.

Yes. State laws yet to be written and intending to regulate abortion, in the near future, could easily include language like that.
Jury nullification I foresee will pop up in possible trials of violators. What we are seeing in this article could be called "prosectorial nullification".

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-06-25 11:57|| 2022-06-25 11:57|| Front Page Top

#3 In attempting to remake America in their mental image, our Progressive multi-billionaires set up the dominoes that are now being knocked down, one after another.

This sure looks like a tipping point to me.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-25 13:17|| 2022-06-25 13:17|| Front Page Top

#4 I like how a week ago anyone who owned a gun is very icky, and now they are like, "go get a gun we have murdering to do."

And how many episodes of Insurrection USA and now be, "Storm the Capitals!"

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-06-25 13:35|| 2022-06-25 13:35|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ We've been conducting an expensive social experiment for the last two or three years, and the results of the experiment are now in: Even very liberal voters don't like being beaten, robbed, and carjacked. Portland's Schmidt is not yet eligible for recall, but that day is coming, as it did for his pal Boudin.

Posted by Matt 2022-06-25 13:40|| 2022-06-25 13:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Boudin may have been "recalled" but I can find no news article that states he has actually left his position as DA.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-06-25 18:18|| 2022-06-25 18:18|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ as with a foul odor the smell will remain for awhile.

Posted by Dale 2022-06-25 19:04|| 2022-06-25 19:04|| Front Page Top

#8 In that case their shield against prosecution and lawsuits should be removed.
Hook a couple on pre-meditated murder charges...

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-06-25 20:21|| 2022-06-25 20:21|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ There's a legitimate debate to be had, and that is being had, about the scope of prosecutorial immunity.

Posted by Matt 2022-06-25 20:38|| 2022-06-25 20:38|| Front Page Top

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