DC Attorney General Race

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which of these guys will keep the criminals off our streets?

Not Schwalb.

As long as Racine has endorsed Schwalb, you can expect the same, “revolving door” arrest policies, where criminals effectively never see jail time after they are arrested - from Schwalb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has like 5 years as a practicing attorney and other than being a councilmember, has no management experience. I don't think managing a council staff is the same rigor and oversight as is needed for Attorney General. Look at Racine's experience. That is what we should be looking for, IMO.

Most people who've practiced law at a big firm have never managed anything and yet they become AGs all the time.

Most biglaw firms are billion or hundreds of millions of dollars businesses and if they are getting an AG job they were part of management.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has like 5 years as a practicing attorney and other than being a councilmember, has no management experience. I don't think managing a council staff is the same rigor and oversight as is needed for Attorney General. Look at Racine's experience. That is what we should be looking for, IMO.

Most people who've practiced law at a big firm have never managed anything and yet they become AGs all the time.

Most biglaw firms are billion or hundreds of millions of dollars businesses and if they are getting an AG job they were part of management.

What are you talking about? Firms have managing partners who manage the day to day operations of the firm. Regular partners don’t do much except sit on committees and go to meetings. They will be responsible for the associates in their practice area but not much else.

[Anonymous]

Being a managing partner of a firm with a strong record of prosecuting cases as well makes one highly more qualified for the AG role than being a Councilmember and mayoral wannabe.

[Anonymous]

I thought the Dept of Justice prosecutes criminals in the District?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the Dept of Justice prosecutes criminals in the District?

Just as I had assumed - the AG can't really do anything about crime in the District, weak sentencing/plea deals, etc. They basically are at the mercy of DC DoJ.

What we don’t do…

In addition, while OAG is the chief juvenile prosecutor for the District and also prosecutes certain adult misdemeanors, OAG shares prosecutorial authority for local crimes with the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.

https://oag.dc.gov/about-oag/what-we-do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the Dept of Justice prosecutes criminals in the District?

Just as I had assumed - the AG can't really do anything about crime in the District, weak sentencing/plea deals, etc. They basically are at the mercy of DC DoJ.

What we don’t do…

In addition, while OAG is the chief juvenile prosecutor for the District and also prosecutes certain adult misdemeanors, OAG shares prosecutorial authority for local crimes with the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.

https://oag.dc.gov/about-oag/what-we-do

OAG prosecutes juvenile crime, which in the District is a large problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the Dept of Justice prosecutes criminals in the District?

Just as I had assumed - the AG can't really do anything about crime in the District, weak sentencing/plea deals, etc. They basically are at the mercy of DC DoJ.

What we don’t do…

In addition, while OAG is the chief juvenile prosecutor for the District and also prosecutes certain adult misdemeanors, OAG shares prosecutorial authority for local crimes with the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.

https://oag.dc.gov/about-oag/what-we-do

OAG prosecutes juvenile crime, which in the District is a large problem.

Don’t forget about all of the affirmative civil litigation to protect housing, consumer and civil rights!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He has like 5 years as a practicing attorney and other than being a councilmember, has no management experience. I don't think managing a council staff is the same rigor and oversight as is needed for Attorney General. Look at Racine's experience. That is what we should be looking for, IMO.

Most people who've practiced law at a big firm have never managed anything and yet they become AGs all the time.

Most biglaw firms are billion or hundreds of millions of dollars businesses and if they are getting an AG job they were part of management.

Not true. I've honestly never seen a biglaw atty be a great administrators. They are ok, but not convinced. I'm a lawyer BTW.

[Anonymous]

Managing partners and the similar manage staff and budget as big as the DC AG office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Managing partners and the similar manage staff and budget as big as the DC AG office.

Very different type of staff though. Having been in big law and managing a DC government team, not even close to similar.

[Anonymous]

managing case load and a staff of attorneys is sort of the same.

If it was a beaurcratic, no-legal agency, then sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the Dept of Justice prosecutes criminals in the District?

Just as I had assumed - the AG can't really do anything about crime in the District, weak sentencing/plea deals, etc. They basically are at the mercy of DC DoJ.

What we don’t do…

In addition, while OAG is the chief juvenile prosecutor for the District and also prosecutes certain adult misdemeanors, OAG shares prosecutorial authority for local crimes with the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.

https://oag.dc.gov/about-oag/what-we-do

OAG prosecutes juvenile crime, which in the District is a large problem.

Well prosecuting so-called criminals for alleged “crimes” is racist.

[Anonymous]

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheArtist_MBS/status/1508793788864544772

Spiva formally challenging McDuffie’s eligibility to run

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://mobile.twitter.com/TheArtist_MBS/status/1508793788864544772

Spiva formally challenging McDuffie’s eligibility to run

Good. I question if McDuffie actually meets the statutory requirement. It is so poorly written that he probably does, but not in the spirit of the intent.