Soft-on-crime district attorney Mary Moriarty announced that she will not run for a second term as the Hennepin County (MN) Attorney.
We’ve written of her often on Power Line. In her short two-and-a-half years in office, she’s done immeasurable damage (perhaps irreversible) to the social fabric of Minnesota’s largest county, by population. All of this by merely not prosecuting crime, especially in the county’s (and state’s) largest city, Minneapolis. Except for cops, she loves to prosecute cops.
Moriarty was the subject of the first piece I wrote for the New York Post. The occasion was Moriarty’s refusal to prosecute a state government employee who went on a Telsa-vandalism binge, back when that was all the rage.
She says she will spend her last year-and-a-half in office pressing her “reforms” to the criminal justice system. God help us all.
He decision to not run again caught the eye of the U.K. Daily Mail, Moriarty’s hometown paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, ran a follow up piece under the headline,
Race to replace Mary Moriarty will double as referendum on reform in Hennepin County.
The Star Tribune places her 2022 election into context,
The election of Moriarty, a former public defender, to county attorney mirrored the elections of similar “progressive prosecutors” including Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, George Gascón in Los Angeles and Larry Krasner in Philadelphia. Boudin was recalled from office in 2022, a first in California history. Gascón lost re-election.
The open seat offers voters a chance to go in a different direction. But I’m frequently reminded that it could always get worse.
