{"id":26384,"date":"2017-11-22T04:11:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T04:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26384"},"modified":"2017-11-22T04:11:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T04:11:28","slug":"this-ex-prosecutor-is-soft-on-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26384","title":{"rendered":"This ex-prosecutor is ‘soft on crime’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s Doug Jones vs. Roy Moore in the race to become Alabama’s next U.S. senator.<\/p>\n

Many of us know about Moore: former two-time Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who was kicked out of office over ethical violations; the Republican now stands accused of sexually assaulting minors. These accusations have consumed the media in recent weeks and have created — at minimum<\/em> — a competitive U.S. Senate campaign in reliably Republican red Alabama.<\/p>\n

Jones is a bit of a mystery. He’s a former federal prosecutor. He’s a Democrat.<\/p>\n

He’s also been called “soft on crime” by Donald J. Trump, who today all but endorsed Moore — his fellow Republican — for the Senate seat once filled by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n

But here’s the deal: Jones once prosecuted the monsters who blew up the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963, the dastardly act of domestic terrorism that killed four African-American girls in Birmingham, Ala. He sent the two men — members of the Ku Klux Klan — to prison.<\/p>\n

Is the president of the United States operating in the same universe as the rest of us?<\/p>\n

Oh, wait! I think I know the answer!<\/p>\n\n

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It’s Doug Jones vs. Roy Moore in the race to become Alabama’s next U.S. senator. Many of us know about Moore: former two-time Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who was kicked out of office over ethical violations; the Republican now stands accused of sexually assaulting minors. These accusations have consumed the media in recent weeks … Continue reading This ex-prosecutor is ‘soft on crime’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[1424,7421,4037,5051],"class_list":["post-26384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-doug-jones","tag-roy-moore","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26386,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26384\/revisions\/26386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}