Klayman: Law and Crime Is a Leftist Rag!

 

By Joe Patrice

Above the Law

August 16, 2019

 

There is certainly a time and a place for a U.S. Attorney to issue a press release about a local District Attorney. That time and place is when and if the federal government has secured an indictment of a local official who has committed a crime and even in that instance the press release must be limited to the four corners of the indictment. What is absolutely inappropriate for a sitting U.S. Attorney to launch a purely political attack on a duly elected local government official. Well, William McSwain of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania just leveled exactly such a nakedly political attack on District Attorney Larry Krasner.

McSwain should resign immediately and should be indicted for violating federal law in debasing his office. Neither of those things will happen.

McSwain’s statement despicably attempts to newsjack the shooting of six Philadelphia police officers to blame Krasner, the public defender turned district attorney, with creating a “new culture of disrespect for law enforcement.” Funny, because when there’s a mass shooting we hear a lot about how talking about actual policy is uncouth, but trying to strain to tag a local official with a shooting because he believes internal affairs should bring more cases to enforce actual violations of the law committed by cops that’s why someone shot these officers. As Ryan Reilly of HuffPo points out, McSwain’s actually gone on cable news to complain about Krasner before so this is, unfortunately, a trend.