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NEW: an elected prosecutor has resigned his role on Trump’s presidential commission on law enforcement, worried that its final report — which is due days before the election — “will only widen the divisions in our nation.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-law-enforcement-commission-barr-john-choi_n_5f5b8afbc5b67602f6045616?fn
John Choi says he worries that Trump’s law enforcement commission is set to “vilify local prosecutors who exercise their well settled prosecutorial discretion consistent with their community’s values and the interests of justice.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-law-enforcement-commission-barr-john-choi_n_5f5b8afbc5b67602f6045616?fn
“Every prosecutor who’s elected in America should have that discretion and they should have an obligation and responsibility to think about what their communities want and apply those policies. There’s nothing wrong with that.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-law-enforcement-commission-barr-john-choi_n_5f5b8afbc5b67602f6045616?fn
“Rather than examine how decades of over-policing in communities of color have created that deficit of trust, the Commission was instead encouraged to study ‘underenforcement’ of criminal laws...” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-law-enforcement-commission-barr-john-choi_n_5f5b8afbc5b67602f6045616?fn
Trump’s commission derived its name from another commission in 1967.
That commission — over a half-century ago — said that “the foundation of a national strategy against crime is an unremitting national effort for social justice.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-law-enforcement-commission-barr-john-choi_n_5f5b8afbc5b67602f6045616?fn
That commission — over a half-century ago — said that “the foundation of a national strategy against crime is an unremitting national effort for social justice.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-law-enforcement-commission-barr-john-choi_n_5f5b8afbc5b67602f6045616?fn
Last year, I purchased former AG Nick Katzenbach’s memoir in an effort to justify my decision to mount his official, avant-garde DOJ portrait on my wall. This week, that memoir came in handy. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-law-enforcement-commission-barr-john-choi_n_5f5b8afbc5b67602f6045616?fn https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1113989818982260736
