The real significance of Gabbard’s critique, however, lies not in the proposition that Harris was a particularly unprofessional or malign prosecutor, but rather in the fact that she seems to have been a rather ordinary prosecutor who simply did her job the way most prosecutors do. And if that makes a former-prosecutor-turned-presidential-candidate look like a monster, then perhaps that says more about prosecutors in general than it does about Kamala Harris in particular.

—Clark Neily, and it was published at Cato.org.

It’s an insightful perspective on our justice system and the role that the almost completely unaccountable power of prosecutors in this system.

Power without accountability is a recipe for corruption.