DeSantis, 8/4/22: ““Soros prosecutors around the country” have “basically taken it upon themselves to determine which laws should be followed, and which laws should not be followed...They want to change the criminal justice system through non-enforcement.””
8/5/2022, “Not Fooling Around: DeSantis Sent Police to Remove Soros-Backed Prosecutor,“ pjmedia, Matt Margolis
“On Thursday [8/4/2022], Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he had suspended woke Soros-backed state attorney Andrew Warren after his declaration that he would refuse to enforce any Florida laws restricting abortion or transgender surgeries for minors.…[Citation for Soros-backed: NY Times, 3/30/2017, “5 Prosecutors With a Fresh Approach,” “Here are five change-minded prosecutors, all of them Democrats whose campaigns were funded by the billionaire George Soros:..Andrew Warren, State attorney for Hillsborough County, Fla. (Tampa), Elected: November 2016.”]
[DeSantis 8/4/22 order]: “As of the signing of this Executive Order, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by other law enforcement agencies as necessary, is requested to: (i) assist in the immediate transition of Andrew Warren from the Office of the State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit of Florida, with access only to retrieve his personal belongings; and (ii) ensure that no files, papers, documents, notes, records, computers, or removable storage media are removed from the Office of the State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit of Florida or any of his staff.”
On Thursday evening [8/4/22], DeSantis explained to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson that
“Soros prosecutors around the country” have “basically taken it upon themselves to determine
which laws should be followed,
and which laws should not be followed.”
“Here’s what Soros is doing—it’s actually smart on his part—
they can’t get these things enacted in a legislature
where you’re just gonna let criminals run amok,” DeSantis explained.
“So what they do, he will get involved in these Democrat primaries in a Democrat area. He’ll
flush a million dollars to get the radical to win the primary,
then they usually win the general
because of the party affiliation difference in the jurisdiction.”
DeSantis continued, “So then you get them in there, and what they do is they want
to change the criminal justice system
So it’s a total end run around our constitutional system. The results obviously have been destructive around the country. But it also really undermines the idea that
ours is supposed to be a government of laws,
not a government of individual men.””
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Added: 6/8/2022, “Report: Soros Prosecutors Run Half of America’s Largest Jurisdictions,” freebeacon.com, Josh Christenson
“Democratic megadonor funneled more than $40 million to elect 75 prosecutors in the last decade.”
“George Soros spent more than $40 million in the past decade to elect scores of liberal prosecutors
in half of America’s largest jurisdictions,
many of which are now roiled by crime.
The Democratic megadonor has backed 75 so-called justice reform prosecutors
through direct contributions, PACs, and other third-party entities, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund revealed in a June report. Though many had little prosecutorial experience when elected,
they represent 72 million Americans in some of the nation’s most populous municipalities.
Ten Soros prosecutors, including Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner (D.) and…
Los Angeles district attorney George Gascon (D.), received $13 million in just the last four years, going on to win races where they had
vastly outraised their competition—
sometimes by as much as 90 percent. In each race,
Soros was the single greatest donor to the campaign.
“Our study shows for the first time, Soros’s funding and installation of these district attorneys is fundamentally dismantling the criminal justice system as we know it,” Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund president Jason Johnson told the Washington Free Beacon.
The report discloses the power progressive criminal prosecutors wield in the American justice system—and the potential effects of that influence on crime. The FBI in 2020 reported its highest single-year increase in homicides—
a 30 percent jump from the previous year. A year later,
12 cities, including Krasner’s Philadelphia and Soros-backed district attorney José Garza’s Austin, Texas,
broke their all-time homicide records. According to the report,
more than 40 percent of homicides and a third of all violent and property crimes in 2021
occurred in jurisdictions run by Soros prosecutors.
From cities like Seattle and Los Angeles, to wealthy suburbs near Washington, D.C., to provincial counties in Mississippi and Wisconsin, the prosecutors
have radically overhauled bail laws
and pursued lightened sentencing in an effort to reduce incarceration. Soros
began his quiet effort to remake America’s criminal justice system
in 2014, donating $50 million to the ACLU for justice reform activism. He followed up
in 2016 by funneling more than $3 million
into seven local campaigns, including to Cook County district attorney Kim Foxx (D.), the controversial Chicago prosecutor known for dropping charges against Jussie Smollett, who committed a hate crime hoax.
Johnson told the Free Beacon career prosecutors are becoming a thing of the past as
former tax attorneys and ACLU lawyers have ascended to top prosecutorial positions on Soros’s dime.
Soros’s network of justice reform groups includes more than 500 PACs, dark money groups, and nonprofits, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund report notes. Some, such as the Drug Policy Alliance, where Soros serves as chairman, are open about their affiliation. Others, like the Tides Center, are “donor pass-through organization[s],” which launder donations from Soros’s philanthropic juggernauts, including the Open Society Foundations, to subentities and political PACs.
Through a cluster of statewide public safety PACs, Soros donated more than a million dollars each
to Krasner, Gascon, Foxx,
and Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg (D.).
He also donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Virginia prosecutors Buta Biberaj (D.) and Steve Descano (D.), both of whom have received scrutiny in office for
failing to prosecute violent criminals and allowing repeat offenders to victimize others.
In a New York Times op-ed last week, Descano also pledged not to prosecute illegal abortions if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade this month.
Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares (R.) told the Free Beacon
the ascent of Soros prosecutors
has changed criminal law in many jurisdictions overnight
and made communities less safe.
“Instead of trying to change the law through elected officials,
these groups are
electing prosecutors who simply ignore it,” Miyares said.
“They’ve replaced DAs that follow the law with radical extremists with an agenda that makes
our communities less safe and emboldens criminals.”
The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund cited a Free Beacon report in March that revealed Descano’s office had
dropped felony charges against a man who attempted to abduct and rape a hotel maid in 2020.
One year later, the same man was charged for killing two homeless men and wounding three others during
a nine-day shooting spree in New York City and Washington, D.C.
The looming threat to public safety has inspired recall efforts against Descano, Biberaj, and Soros-funded Arlington County commonwealth’s attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti (D.)
in Virginia.
“Soros prosecutors now preside over 20 percent of Americans
with the same disastrous results we have seen in Virginia—violent criminals and sexual predators roam the streets victimizing innocents,” Sean Kennedy, the president of Virginians for Safe Communities, which fielded a recall effort against the prosecutors, told the Free Beacon. “As San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin faces his fate in a recall today [6/8/22, Boudin was successfully recalled], VSC knows that Northern Virginia’s Soros prosecutors will face the same public reckoning soon as the American people want safety first.”
Other prosecutors have participated in junkets, symposiums,
and even lavish retreats put on by Soros-funded entities.
More than 20 Soros prosecutors, including Gascon, Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby (D.), and St. Louis circuit attorney Kim Gardner (D.), traveled with Fair and Just Prosecution, a Tides Center subentity,
in 2019 to Germany and Portugal, where they learned about “drug decriminalization and harm reduction approaches.” The Vera Institute of Justice, a think tank funded by millions from Soros’s Open Society Foundation,
treated Mosby and Foxx the same year to an
all-expenses-paid spa retreat during work days.
The Vera Institute and other think tanks funded by Soros also promote these progressive prosecutors’ tactics while shielding them from bad press.
New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice
has the public relations firm BerlinRosen on retainer for district attorneys it works with, according to the report.
The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund anticipates Soros will spend millions more to reelect Gascon and to install other candidates in Raleigh, N.C., and Alameda County and Orange County, Calif., this year [2022].
Voters in San Francisco issued the first check against Soros prosecutors during a recall election Tuesday, with 60 percent ousting San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin (D.) after a little more than two years in office.”
[You Tube image above added by this blog].
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Added: If you’re thinking of moving to Philadelphia: six images from Philadelphia skid row, 8/14/2021:
“Streets of Philadelphia, Kensington Avenue, What happened today, Aug, 14, 2021”
Above, “white supremacists” on Philadelphia skid row.
Above, “White Privilege” on Philadelphia skid row, 8/14/2021
Above, “white supremacists” must have forced non-whites to live on Philadelphia skid row.
Above, on Philadelphia skid row they may wonder how millions of illegal aliens and so-called “refugees” are treated like celebrities, given free US taxpayer funded housing.
Above, “American values” on Philadelphia skid row.
Above, Philadelphia skid row. USA! USA!
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