'It's just a big colossal mess' | Prosecutors grapple with abortion bans

“‘We have 6,000 district attorneys in our country, they are primarily responsible for the day-to-day prosecution of criminal activities,’ Tierney said. ‘Attorney’s general supplement and occasionally override decisions of those district attorneys based on the authority given to the attorney general in a particular state.’
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Our experts say these state and local prosecutors choose not to enforce state law all the time.

’They have huge discretion,’ Tierney said. ‘Every day district attorneys, assistant district attorneys, assistant attorneys general decide to not enforce a law. That is why we choose them.’”

Eliana Block, “'It's just a big colossal mess' | Prosecutors grapple with abortion bans,” VERIFY, WUSA9.com, July 14, 2022.