Bitterhook
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This is from his X account.
“What was wrong with the bill three months ago is still wrong today. It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America,” Higgins said. “As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people – witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. Not by my vote.”
It is a principled vote, which I respect no matter which side the politician is.
With the possible lack of solid evidence to act on, and the overabundance of exculpatory, speculative or suspicious evidence, this whole thing could turn into a bigger mess. As eager as many seem to be, and with the knowledge the media will go hog wild with whatever 'dirty laundry' they can manage to parse, a little caution out of respect for anyone who may be innocent or a victim, may be appropriate.
I am almost certain that Representative Higgin's intentions were not to jeopardize his political career or take a ton of heat to try and protect someone in a vote where he was surely going to be the only one, if not one of the few, to vote "no". He voted his principles and provided a word of caution, in hopes we consider what we are doing and at least attempt to restrain some of the crap that is going to happen.