President Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts is a soft-on-crime progressive who has declined to prosecute low-level offenses such as shoplifting, trespassing, and drug possession.

President Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts is a soft-on-crime progressive who has declined to prosecute low-level offenses such as shoplifting, trespassing, and drug possession.