Hello, and welcome to the Byron Workshop, the notes that jet podcast, we like to get right

into it.

And what we're going to get into today is not more on the Republican presidential race,

not about the debt limit or anything, we're going to talk about a progressive reformer,

a self-styled progressive reformer who has just gone down in flames over issues of personal

corruption.

Back in 2021, way back in 2021, at the beginning of the Joe Biden administration, the president,

Joe Biden, fought very hard to win Senate confirmation for a woman named Rachel Rollins to become

the U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts.

At the time, Rollins was the District Attorney of Suffolk County, which includes Boston,

and she had become famous, infamous, notorious by pledging, as the District Attorney, not

to prosecute many crimes.

I'm going to be the District Attorney, and I'm in charge of prosecuting crimes, and by

the way, I'm not going to prosecute them.

She actually published what was called the Rollins memo, and it listed 15 crimes in which

she said the default position, the default, is to decline prosecuting what that meant

was.

If someone is accused of committing these crimes, her office would not allow its prosecutors

to prosecute unless a supervisor gave them special permission.

Okay, that's the Rollins memo from 2019.

So here's the list.

I'll give you the list of all 15 offenses.

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