For Star subscribers: Arizona's former attorney general claims Trump is a victim of politicized prosecution, while his successor says she's forced to 'depoliticize' the office he just left.
Tim Steller The indictment of Donald Trump was still days off when former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich pronounced some thoughts on the prospect."They're trying to score political points for themselves personally," Brnovich said of New York prosecutors, on the March 28 edition of a podcast called Rich Valdes America at Night.
The point is that political cases, civil and criminal, are inherent to these positions, and we should judge them on their merits and their context. If a prosecutor never brought a case with political implications, corruption would never be confronted and public office would be a risk-free crime-spree. A government could impose any policy, constitutional or not, without resistance.
It was clearly a political statement that would benefit Brnovich, but the suit at least made a frontal challenge to a policy that arguably could hurt Arizonans. Many of those lawsuits are gone now. Mayes, has been systematically going through Brnovich's campaign-style lawsuits and dismissing them or removing Arizona from them in multi-state cases — at least 13 so far.
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