Soros-Backed St. Louis Prosecutor Facing Removal Blames Subordinates for ‘Possible Mistakes’

Kim Gardner, the district attorney of St. Louis who received backing from George Soros, asserts that possible mistakes made by her subordinates should be held responsible for her failure to prosecute criminals. Gardner filed a motion to expel the lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to remove her from office. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, she stated that a hearing for the case will be held on April 18.

In response to the lawsuit, Gardner argues that the allegations against her are limited to the mistakes of her subordinates and ordinary prosecutorial conduct as none of these actions are attributed to her personally. Bailey had claimed that Gardner had lost the people’s trust for failing to prosecute cases. He sought to remove Gardner from office in February after a suspected robber and repeat offender, who had violated his parole conditions, caused a crash that left a teenage girl severely and permanently injured.

Gardner partnered with Soros’s-back group, the Vera Institute of Justice, in 2017. This organization aims to eliminate “mass imprisonment” and “racial oppression” in the criminal justice system, according to a report by Fox News. In 2020, 35.8 percent of the cases under Gardner’s supervision were not prosecuted. Soros, according to the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, spent over $40 million in the past decade to elect 75 liberal prosecutors, including Gardner, to serve in half of America’s most significant jurisdictions.

“Soros’s funding and installation of these district attorneys is fundamentally dismantling the criminal justice system as we know it,” the president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund stated to the Washington Free Beacon.