![]() The scathing reports released Wednesday lay it all out. But at a Dorchester rally the next day, it was as if that call had never happened, and the new DA – with security provided by members of the antisemitic, homophobic Nation of Islam – let it rip. ![]() After that very public conflict, she and the governor appeared to smooth things over in a phone call. Governor Charlie Baker’s public safety chief criticized her proposals, and Rollins forcefully pushed back, bringing up the way sexual assault allegations against Baker’s son had been handled. And she won’t hold her tongue just because decorum – or somebody else’s idea of ethics – requires it.įor example, in 2019, shortly after she took office as DA, she set about fulfilling a campaign promise to overhaul the way crimes are prosecuted, including declining to prosecute certain drug offenses and relatively minor crimes. Soon-to-be-former US attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins was never going to muster the restraint required to be a federal prosecutor.Īs her tenure as Suffolk DA showed, Rollins is intensely political, and combative. ![]()
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