In the US, progressive local prosecutors make inroads
1 / 3Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, the top prosecutor for Arlington County and Falls Church in the Washington suburbs, is one of a small group of reform-minded local prosecutorsParisa Dehghani-Tafti, the top prosecutor for Arlington County and Falls Church in the Washington suburbs, is one of a small group of reform-minded local prosecutors Arlington - On the national level, President Donald Trump is appointing judges by the dozens to positions on US federal courts, ensuring a conservative tilt for a...
"The federal judiciary is changing, it's becoming very conservative. It's even more important that folks who are reform-informed people are running and engaged in the local system," she told AFP.Since he won the White House, Trump has named nearly 200 judges to the federal bench. In that time, about 40 unorthodox prosecutors -- one is even a tattooed biker -- have taken office.
In the past, local prosecutors were known to favor tough sentences for even minor offenses, often as a way of ensuring re-election.Story continues"We need more people joining the Justice League of progressive prosecutors," says Rachael Rollins, the district attorney in Suffolk County in Massachusetts, which includes Boston.
"I kept seeing over and over problems -- not with one case, they were systemic. I decided at one point ... that I couldn't not try to do something," she explains. Since taking office, Ayala has been subjected to a hail of racist and sexist insults -- and death threats.Ayala thinks the attacks are as much about who she is as what she wants to achieve.
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