Getting leftist St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner out of office is about “restoring the rule of law and finding justice,” Missouri's Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey told Newsmax Monday.
“I am empowered by statute to remove her from office if she has willfully neglected her duty,” Bailey told “Rob Schmitt Tonight.” “It's not just that I disagree with the job she's doing. She is unlawfully willfully neglecting her statutory constitutional and moral obligations.”
Bailey said that Gardner is neglecting these obligations in three ways — failing to prosecute pending cases, failing to inform victims of hearings and ultimate dispositions in cases, and failing to file new cases brought by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
“So at this point, it's time for the circuit attorney to go, and for the rule of law and justice to prevail,” Bailey said.
Bailey then explained how leftist prosecutors abuse prosecutorial discretion, saying that prosecutorial discretion should be “about reviewing the evidence you have in front of you and determining whether or not there is sufficient evidence for charge, what the charges and what the appropriate disposition in the case should be.”
However, prosecutorial discretion “is not authority to nullify the laws after the fact.”
“If you want to change the law, go run for the legislature,” Bailey said. “But the prosecutor's job is to enforce the laws as written. She's willfully failing to do that. At this point it's a violation of law, and rather than protecting victims, she's creating more victims.”
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