When the Prosecutor Picks the Man
We were warned about a prosecutor--or president--who might "pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted."
On April 1, 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s attorney general, Robert H. Jackson, addressed the Second Annual Conference of U.S. Attorneys in Washington, D.C.
His speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” is remembered as one of the clearest statements ever made about…




