The Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre Is Not a Federal Case
By Andrew C. McCarthy
October 29, 2018 6:30 AM
The Feds should support Pennsylvania’s prosecution, not compete with it.
Republicans like to tell you that the government is too big. They also rightly complain that we have an overregulation problem (which they too often wrongly conflate into an over-incarceration problem). Overregulation includes Washington’s criminalization of too much conduct that should not be made illegal (or at least should not be subject to criminal prosecution) or that should be left to the states to prosecute. The Framers, after all, gave us a system in which the states are sovereign, governing their own internal affairs. The federal role, particularly in the administration of criminal justice, is supposed to be limited to activity that is interstate or international in nature, or that affects some obvious federal interest (such as assaults on federal officials).
But then Republicans get elected and they realize there is no political advantage in this position. The public cares about crime, especially such shocking crime as Saturday’s massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, in which an anti-Semitic gunman, Robert Bowers, killed eleven people and wounded six others, including four police officers who responded to the shooting spree.
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