While Democrats talk about packing the Supreme Court, George Soros is moving from electing crime-friendly district attorneys to pro-crime judges at lower levels who will move up into increasingly prominent positions over their lifetimes.
It’s a significant pivot in the well-established “Soros strategy,” which floods relatively low-cost and bottom-of-the-ballot races with advertising to seat leftist district attorneys. In a new report, the Center for American Institutions documents how the flow of dark money into DA races and state supreme court campaigns has chipped away at trust in judicial institutions. While the funding comes from both sides of the aisle, “nothing in the Republican stable matches the Democratic Party’s network of interlocking nonprofits,” and the Soros-run groups “are the biggest and most complete political/financial complexes,” the report notes.
Recent events demonstrate how effectively the Soros strategy can be deployed in state judge races by adding campaign workers to money. The Democratic Socialists of America have already backed candidates, usually their own members, in district attorney races, notably in Austin, Texas, and Queens County, New York. But as influential as DAs are in deciding which cases to bring, why not elect the judges who decide cases?
The idea of holding positions in the hopelessly corrupt American justice system is absurd to some members of the DSA, especially the Marxists. But others see the opportunity: achieving a small measure of justice for the downtrodden, and advancing an attack on landlords and the carceral state. In fact, DSAers and their allies can already be found in low-level judicial positions in a number of municipalities.
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