A progressive movement to install liberal activists in district attorney's offices across the country is beginning to backfire, with voters in some cities reconsidering their choices and Republicans in others organizing ahead of the next election.
has sunk millions of dollars over the past several years into boosting candidates that have advocated reforms such as ending cash bail, barring prosecutions of minors as adults, and declining to bring cases against a host of less serious, but frequently disruptive, violations of the law.Soros invested more than $1.6 million into the 2017 campaign to elect Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.to a historic level. Pennsylvania's largest city broke its all-time murder record in 2021.
Boudin’s removal from office in June via a recall vote thrust the simmering tensions between some voters and their elected prosecutors into the national spotlight. A number of groups have begun to invest more in the infrastructure to advance candidates committed to enforcing the law. The Protecting Americans Action Fund has put money behind Republican candidates for the top prosecutor jobs in Indianapolis and Fort Worth, Texas.
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