New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is accusing the US Justice Department of withholding access to unredacted files related to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that the lack of cooperation is preventing the state from bringing justice to survivors.

“Every day that the USDOJ withholds these records, the foundation upon which a New Mexico prosecution could be built erodes,” Torrez wrote in a scathing letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on June 30 that was publicly released on Thursday.

“Witnesses relocate and become unreachable. Memories, already strained by years of trauma, fade further. Physical and documentary evidence degrades, is lost, or is rendered more difficult to authenticate with the passage of time,” Torrez added.

    • GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world
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      Nope. We saw how that worked with the Jan 6 insurrectionists. We can no longer leave the possibility of undoing it.

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      I think us doing a bad job at hanging them would be the preferable way to do it. Maybe it’ll take two or three tries, but we’ll get there in the end.

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        Give them the MAGA quality execution they’ve earned, and deserve.

        At the end of WWII, there were a lot of local military trials of Nazi shitheads, and many were executed by deliberately using short drop hangings, in which the body doesn’t drop far enough to snap the neck, and they just strangle slowly as they dangle.

        In fact, the primary executioner at Nuremburg was a rank amateur, who lied about having previous execution experience. Yet the American military put him in charge anyway, and as a result, many of the executions were botched, resulting in mumerous agonizing Nazi deaths. Totally by accident. Right. Oh well.

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      I can go either way. In both cases, their supporters will be scared back into their mothers’ basements to rot for eternity.