‘No Matter the Law, I Will Not Prosecute’: The Rise of Progressive Prosecutors and Their Subversion of the Rule of Law
R. Albert Mohler Jr. The Briefing, Albertmohler.com
June 2, 2022
What does it mean when a prosecuting attorney says that he or she will not prosecute violations of the law? This raises a legal issue known as prosecutorial discretion, the discretion by which a prosecutor decides whether or not to file charges and what charges to file in a specific case, how to prosecute a crime if the crime is going to be prosecuted.
But it also raises a host of other issues, and these issues have landed squarely in the national attention with several developments. One is the fact that there are now recall efforts against at least two major district attorneys, that is senior prosecuting attorneys with that authority in places like San Francisco and Los Angeles. In both jurisdictions, as we shall see in future conversations on The Briefing.
In both of those jurisdictions, extremely liberal prosecutors had been elected and yet their performance in office has led to the fact that even in a very liberal state, there are now very organized efforts to remove the…