Reposted by Jessica Schulberg
Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets.
So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most.
NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.
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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts
Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.
![“Some of our most ‘egregious’ cases have been those in
which we have granted relief based on an unfounded Eighth
Amendment claim,” and Atkins is certainly near the top of
the list. Glossip v. Gross, 576 U. S. 863, 905–906 (2015)
(THOMAS, J., concurring). Atkins’s rejection of “the historical meaning of the [Eighth] Amendmen[t],” see Ramos, 590
U. S., at 106, has denied the justice governments have
given to murder victims from time immemorial, Glossip,
576 U. S., at 905–906 (THOMAS, J., concurring). And it degrades the mildly intellectually disabled by putting them
“on a level with . . . infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals”—those who cannot “‘have known better.’” C. S.
Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment, 13 Issues
in Religion and Psychotherapy 147, 151 (1987); see Atkins,
536 U. S., at 318, 319–320. In a future case, the Court
should overrule Atkins and restore “the Cruel and Unusual
Punishments Clause’s fixed meaning in resolving any challenge brought under it.” Grants Pass, 603 U. S., at 562
(THOMAS, J., concurring). For now, I respectfully dissent.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreidhjkak5ifhylniknek4qbpr7xyx6zj6m3vpxeeqkfohry6xrcnoi)
