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Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins has formally resigned after wide-ranging...

We need to talk about Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo’s role in the scandalous revelations about former US Attorney Rachael Rollins.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins formally resigned Friday after wide-ranging investigations by two federal watchdog agencies found she sought to use her position to influence a local election and lied to investigators. In a letter to President Joe Biden obtained by The Associated Press, Rollins thanked the White House for supporting her […]

Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins formally resigned Friday after wide-ranging investigations by two federal watchdog agencies found she sought to use her position to influence a local election and lied to investigators.

Rachael Rollins’ forced resignation as U.S. Attorney is a stinging embarrassment for both Elizabeth Warren and Eddie Markey.

Critics and supporters alike have pored over Rollins’s record, highlighting her successes and missteps, and reexamining warning signs that might have foretold her spectacular fall.

Rachael Rollins's greatest legal exposure, experts and attorneys say, could lie with Massachusetts’ own bar, which they say has wide leeway to pursue an investigation and potential sanctions up to revoking her law license after two government investigations found she repeatedly committed ethical breaches as US attorney.

I’ve long believed that she wasn’t just wrong on key issues, she was unethical, corrupt, and extreme. I came to this conclusion by doing something truly profound; I looked at her record. - Sen. Tom Cotton

Rachael Rollins is a textbook example of why some prominent figures never text, period. Even a single ill-considered thought can sink you forever, at least if you’re not in a Democrat-protected class. But the lesson of Rachael Rollins is, at some point, you can go so far off the rails that even the protected-class shields fail.

City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo says he’s not stepping down, despite calls for him to do so – given the former US Attorney’s alleged involvement in his race...