Past the breaking point: Voters in San Francisco recalled Chesa Boudin, the rogue San Francisco prosecutor funded by leftist billionaire George Soros, in the wake of a huge crime spike in the city.
Politics over safety: Heritage has warned against these prosecutors’ refusal to enforce entire categories of duly enacted laws at the expense of voters.
Doomed from the start: “Boudin’s recall is significant not just for the voters in the City by the Bay, but nationally, as it is the clearest signal yet that the rogue prosecutor movement, as we have been saying, is a colossal failure,” write Charles “Cully” Stimson, deputy director of the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, and legal fellow Zack Smith.
Learn more: Read more about the end of Boudin’s reign here. Check out Heritage’s extensive coverage of rogue prosecutors here.
