Remember when equal treatment under the law was still a thing? Hennepin County, Minnesota County Attorney Mary Moriarty doesn’t. She is instructing prosecutors to consider race when determining possible plea deals, which is not only against the principle of equal treatment under the law, but is also actually racist.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, Acting Associate Attorney General Chad Mizelle and Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon informed Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty in a letter that the Justice Department is opening a probe into whether the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office “engaged in a pattern of practice of depriving persons of rights, privileges or immunities secured or protect by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
The letter, dated May 2, cited Moriarty’s recently adopted “Negotiations…
