"In 2024 in Alameda County, we saw that same carnage, the destabilization of our justice system by a billionaire - a single billionaire - and his wannabe wealthy friends, who spent millions of dollars on a recall campaign to destabilize our justice system."
"We have a DA now who's an appointed district attorney who stands with the billionaires, with corporate polluters, with insurance companies who cheat, with rogue police who kill, and with prosecutors motivated by their own political agenda and ambitions and not the law."
"Price launched investigations into 35 cases after her office revealed evidence suggesting prior district attorneys had covered up a decades-long practice of excluding Black and Jewish jurors from death penalty cases."
Billionaire influence and recall spending destabilized the federal government and Alameda County's justice system in 2024 and 2025. Ursula Jones-Dickson replaced the previous district attorney in February and reversed several progressive policies, including reinstating mandatory minimums for illegal gun possession, restructuring the Police Accountability Unit, and withdrawing death row resentencing efforts. Investigations were opened into 35 cases after evidence emerged of a decades-long practice of excluding Black and Jewish jurors from death penalty trials. Concerns about alignment with wealthy interests, corporate polluters, insurers, and rogue police have prompted consideration of a 2026 challenge.
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