"... In 2023, [Texass Gov. Greg] Abbott and the Republican Texas legislature passed a law which allows the state to remove from office 'rogue' locally-elected district attorneys.
"The public justification for the law was that some DA’s were too lenient on crime. Today the state is looking into removing José Garza, the DA who prosecuted Perry.
"While pardoning Perry, Gov. Abbott claimed that Garza had 'demonstrated unethical and biased misuse of his office in prosecuting Daniel Scott Perry.'
"Texas Republicans are not content to allow Perry’s murder of Garrett Foster. They also want to send a message that even using the law to bring charges against members of the ingroup who kill members of the outgroup is verboten.
"That is what 'law and order' means to Republicans. And it is all perfectly legal." -- conservative Jonathan V. Last, in The Bulwark, on what Republican "justice" means, as recently demonstrated by the pardoning of racist murderer Daniel Perry. "Bringing charges against members of the ingroup who kill members of the outgroup is verboten" is a corollary of Wilhoit's law (i.e., “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”).
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