Republican lawmakers in New York are pushing for a constitutional amendment that would establish a process through which electors can remove district attorneys from office if they are “soft on crime.”
Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay (R-Oswego), Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt (R-Lockport), Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R-East Shore/Brooklyn), and Deputy Senate Republican Leader Andrew Lanza (R-Staten Island) introduced the constitutional amendment (S.9484) on June 9.
Under the proposed amendment, district attorneys will be “held accountable for their policies once they take office” and will be subject to recall campaigns if they lose the public’s trust by putting “criminal interests before law-abiding citizens.”…