BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – President Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts is a soft-on-crime progressive who has declined to prosecute low-level offenses such as shoplifting, trespassing and drug possession.
Rachael Rollins, the district attorney for Suffolk County, was nominated by Biden on and is likely to be confirmed by the Senate this fall, unless a Democratic senator votes against her.
After taking office in January 2019, Rollins released a policy memo identifying more than a dozen charges she said should be declined for prosecution. On her list she includes “stalking by sex offenders that allege they only want to look but not touch, underage drinking from kids that has a ‘C’ average in school or above, and shoplifting from national franchise stores that can easily absorb the financial loss.”