It's Thursday, June 2, 2022.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian

worldview.

What does it mean when a prosecuting attorney says that he or she will not prosecute violations

of the law?

This raises a legal issue known as prosecutorial discretion, the discretion by which a prosecutor decides whether or not to file charges and what charges to file in a specific case, how to prosecute a crime if the crime is going to be

prosecuted. But it also raises a host of other issues and these issues have

landed squarely in the national attention with several developments.

One is the fact that there are now recall efforts against at least two major district attorneys,

that is senior prosecuting attorneys with that authority in places like San Francisco and

Los Angeles in both jurisdictions as we shall see in future conversations on the

briefing in both of those jurisdictions, extremely liberal prosecutors had been elected, and yet their performance in office has led to the fact that even in a very liberal state, there are now very organized efforts to remove them from office. But what

we're going to look at today is the state of Virginia, where in the state of Virginia, the

Commonwealth attorney whose name is Steve Daskano, has announced that he is not going to

prosecute abortion crimes if indeed abortion becomes a crime in particular he

says as the headline in the New York Times reveals, quote,

my governor can pass bad abortion laws, but I won't enforce them.

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This is the result of a very long march through the law schools and through legal institutions

undertaken by those who applying what has been known as critical legal studies and

other liberal and progressive ideologies, what they have argued is a progressive understanding of the law, the function of lawyers

and in particular the function of prosecutors. And the revolutionary issue here is the widespread

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