Alvin Bragg is an historically significant person. He is from Harlem and graduated from Harvard University with a law degree, Juris Doctor. He worked as a federal prosecutor and for a private law firm and in 2021 was elected New York County District Attorney.
His platform for DA called for judicial reforms that would abolish prosecutions for low level violations like marijuana possession and public transit fare evasion.
With some irony, he charged former president Trump with falsifying business records – a misdemeanor. Somehow Bragg upgraded the charge to a crime.
Part of his argument is that Trump’s falsification of business records to hide a hush money expense was intended to assist in influencing an election (News websites are intended to influence elections).
Alvin Bragg used the levers of government for an unusual prosecution. By convicting a former president and current presidential nominee, he contributes to the decline of the American system to an historical low, dragging it into a politicized sink hole rarely if ever seen in stable democratic countries. Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan campaign – nothing less than the Third World arriving at the Hudson.