Tim Griffin, the attorney general of Arkansas, joined Liz Collin to talk about Soros-backed prosecutors and how to defeat them at the ballot box—including Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty.
Griffin, who serves as Arkansas’s attorney general, is also chairman of the Protecting Americans Action Fund. In taking time from his busy schedule for the interview, Griffin provided insights about activist prosecutors and their impact on the quality of life of Americans.
In speaking about Moriarty, who has been involved in several controversies since taking office in 2023, Griffin did not mince words: “Well, she is precisely the type of prosecutor that we’re trying to keep out of office in the first place.”
Moriarty recently enacted a race-based plea deal policy, which is now the focus of an investigation launched by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The policy directs prosecutors to consider race when offering plea deals, which Griffin pointed out is “on its face unconstitutional.”
Griffin also explained how the Protecting Americans Action Fund works to call attention to prosecutors like Moriarty before they get elected, and put a spotlight on their work if they are elected and adopt soft-on-crime policies.
The connection between prosecutors and quality of life
“If no one shines a light on it … then most likely those prosecutors are going to stay in office,” Griffin said.
Griffin also spoke to Collin about another key part of the group’s work: “It’s very important that we connect what a prosecutor does or doesn’t do with quality of life and outcomes that average Americans, everyday Americans see in their lives.”
“If you’re not safe, you’re not free. If you are avoiding parts of a town to fill up with gas, to shop, to spend time to eat, if you’re avoiding that part of town because of safety issues, as is often the case in urban areas where we have these progressive prosecutors, then you’re not free. If you can’t go where you want because of crime, you’re not free. And Moriarty is just another example of this sort of prosecutor that we need to shine a light on,” Griffin explained.
Griffin also pointed out the necessity for drawing attention to these issues because “a lot of these prosecutors are not household names. And so if you don’t have an organization like ours drawing attention to them, people may never know what’s going on.”
Aside from Moriarty, Griffin discussed how prosecutor Kim Foxx transformed Chicago and Cook County and negatively affected the quality of life in that area during her tenure from 2016 until 2024. In doing so, Griffin spoke about another key issue concerning activist prosecutors.
Staying engaged and fighting complacency
“The enemy is complacency. The enemy is when people say, well, it really doesn’t matter who the prosecutor is. It’ll be the same either way. That couldn’t be more false. That is demonstratively false. Because what you see in areas where there’s been a progressive prosecutor, what you see is when you replace that progressive prosecutor with someone that simply believes that violent people should be behind bars and that we should not have a culture of leniency, we should have a culture of compliance, that changes everything,” Griffin said.
Collin asked Griffin about what voters can do to prevent soft-on-crime prosecutors from negatively impacting their quality of life. In response, Griffin explained, “The key is do not wait on an election cycle. Stay engaged. If you’re unhappy about the crime, there’s probably something that your elected officials could be doing differently. And if you’ve got a progressive prosecutor, I can almost guarantee you they could be doing things differently. So you’ve got to be outspoken.”
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