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Once again, Steve Heymann appears to be the bad guy here. Here's the wh.gov petition to have him fired, too: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-ass
by rosser 14y ago
Once again, Steve Heymann appears to be the bad guy here. Here's the wh.gov petition to have him fired, too:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-attorney-steve-heymann/RJKSY2nb https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-...
- brandonsavage 14y agoI don't know that firing people is necessarily the best way to approach the problem. It might make us feel better but it won't solve the actual problem, which is the overly prosecutorial society we have.
- rosser 14y agoI don't know if it's the best solution either, but the fact that the petition calling for Carmen Ortiz's sacking reached 25k signatures in three days, alone, suggests that distaste for our "overly prosecutorial society" isn't exactly "rare". Having multiple hops in the chain of command behind Aaron's prosecution publicly called out like that can't hurt, and makes it seem less of a "backlash" and more of a "this isn't right."