The District Attorney of Maine’s most populous county will no longer charge individuals, including illegal aliens, who are caught driving without a license, driving with a suspended registration, or driving an unregistered motor vehicle.
The new policy change, which will take effect on March 1, was announced in a memo distributed this week by Cumberland County District Attorney Jacqueline A. Sartoris.
Although the new non-charging policy will apply to all drivers in Cumberland County, the traffic violations in question are commonly associated with individuals who are present in the U.S. illegally and therefore cannot obtain Driver’s Licenses or vehicle registrations.
The policy change means that any individual pulled over in Cumberland County driving an unregistered vehicle, driving without a license, or driving with a suspended registration will face no criminal penalty if that is their only alleged violation.
Typically, non-charging memoranda have a trickle down effect that result in law enforcement stopping to even attempt enforcement of laws which they know will never apply.
According to the memo, a copy of which was obtained by the Maine Wire, Sartoris is making the change because the Cumberland County DA’s caseload is too high for the taxpayer-funded workers to efficiently process.
“The focus for us is on problem-solving (making people get legal) and focusing on genuine public safety cases, of which we have plenty,” Sartoris said in the memo.
“If you have other thoughts about resolving our 150% caseload, please feel free to share them,” she said. “At the moment, and for the foreseeable future, this step is prudent, responsive to real-world challenges, and a civil violation is the appropriate response when any of these are the only potential criminal charge.”
Sartoris won her DA gig after a DC-based political action committee funded by billionaire George Soros dumped $300,000 into her election campaign.
That effort was part of a broader campaign by Soros to install politically-aligned DAs who would generally avoid enforcing many laws for the purported purpose of advancing social justice.
Soros-backed DAs have been criticized nationwide for abetting lawlessness in America’s major cities through what’s known as prosecutor nullification.
By refusing to enforce laws against crimes like driving without a license or driving with a suspended license, DAs can effectively nullify laws placed on the books by state legislatures.
So when they cause accidents those of us who drive legally and have insurance are screwed.
It won’t be long til some of them hurt or kill someone.
Every day I’m on the road I see the dangerous driving.
Some of them drive nice cars too.
Saw one at Sam’s in a new $65,000 Nissan suv last week.
Too bad the last DA was such a phony and tried to kiss up to the wokeness.
We wouldn’t have a Soros bought and paid for DA.
Of course there have been at times over 50 alumni of Soros’ Emerge America program in politics in ME and still are lots.
Another thing…
Since when does the DA get to decide which laws ignore and which to enforce?
If I was the Sheriff of Cumberland County I would have the Deputies show up at her office, remove her, and bring her before the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court. Title 30-A.257, “If a majority of the justices sitting finds, by clear and convincing evidence, that the respondent district attorney has violated a statute or is not performing the duties of office faithfully and efficiently, and finds in consequence that removal from office is necessary in the public interest, judgment to that effect shall be entered, and the respondent shall thereby be removed from office as district attorney.
Sheldon Adelson – the Republican equivalent who passed away was your “kingmaker”. What’s good for one is also good for the other. You people make me laugh about how abused you are.
“If you have other thoughts about resolving our 150% caseload, please feel free to share them.”
Hire experienced workers from the private sector instead of lazy, woke, underperforming SJWs who feel entitled to take required breaks and punch out precisely at the end of their shift instead of finishing their work. Change the attitude and the cultural mindset of the bureaucrats employed and you’ll run a tighter ship.
So in Maine, instead of EQUAL justice under the law, the laws will now be applied differently and more leniently, to those constituencies who are favored by Maine’s communist party. Wow, talk about wiping your feet on the Constitution. So if a driver, who has no right to even be in the country in the first place, causes an accident he uses his “Get Out Of Jail Card” and is indemnified against any legal responsibility for his actions? Maine is becoming a banana republic before our eyes with the communists in charge.
Liberalism is destroying America from within. If we had an AG or Governor who stood up for justice and law enforcement they would immediately begin removing her from office, unfortunately the AG and Governor suffer from the same mental illness called liberalism.
The focus for us is ….. focusing on genuine public safety cases, ……” Sartoris said
Try driving on I295 from SOPO to Falmouth! Every day, the shiny new SUV’s driven by non-Americans are driving way below highway speed, stopping mid lane, and they especially do NOT know how to merge to enter. Is this not a “Genuine Public Safety Issue?” On Wednesday, 2 SUV’s, both driven by non-Americans, stopped side by side (on Exit 4) blocking the only lane, so that the occupants could shuffle between vehicles! “Genuine Public Safety Issue” Is it going to take a few deaths to get our leaders to notice the harm their policies are causing? DO these people even have licenses and car insurance? How do they afford these SUV’s while we are paying for their housing, food, training, medical care? I certainly can’t afford one!
Sartoris must have graduated at the top of her class to have come up with this stroke of genius. Why not jeopardize the safety of all law abiding Maine drivers by eliminating the need for illegal immigrants to abide by those same laws?
Since Sartoris asked, here are a few alternatives: STOP playing politics! FOCUS on doing your job of ENFORCING Maine laws! If you can’t, RESIGN!
Pretty soon they’ll allow stealing up to 1000$ as petty theft and not charge them. It’s ONLY THE BEGINNING!!! stand up and stop the illegal discrimination odds your county citizens NOW CUMBERLAND! DO NOT STAND FOR IT! YOU MUST ORGANIZE AND PUT A STOP TO THE DISCRIMATORY , UNLAWFULL ONE SIDED DISPENCE OF OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
I’m sure if you aren’t an “invader”, the nice officer will find another violation (cracked taillight, worn tire, etc.) so that there is “another violation”. How else can the “invaders” continue to be funded. Got to reap the “hay” somewhere!!
“If you have other thoughts about resolving our 150% caseload, please feel free to share them,”
I have a thought. Don’t bring illegals here or make it inviting for them to come in the first place. If they are illegals and they arrive here for whatever reason then send em back where they came from. Problem solved. These clowns create the problem and then expect the rest of us to pay for their foolishness.
We are witnessing the decline of the American empire and Me is at the forefront.
White Mainers should stop registering their cars. What’s the point? Maine government is clearly targeting White people with ‘civil rights’ violations and coddling non-Whites with this type of crap.
This is the same lady who declined to prosecute the homeless zombie who randomly attacked a friend of mine and sent him to the hospital for stitches. If she’s complaining that she can’t do her job because too many people are breaking the law, the answer isn’t to change the laws or stop enforcing them. Where is Aaron Frey? He needs to start managing out this difficult employee.
So, we re paying annual excise fees why?
Somebody please explain
So if a convicted drunk driver is still driving with a suspended license, he/she is good to go? Watch out! The drunks (legal and illegal) are going to be all over the highway… lets start a death count for Sartoris, who will have bloody hands.
Vote her out of office! I doubt the libs in Ptown have the common sense to do so.
That is nuts!
She needs to be removed asap.
Portland, Maine soon to resemble that of Portland, Oregon at the rate things are going.
Can Sartoris explain … Where do all the accident victims go to collect if the drivers have no valid insurance? No license and driving while suspended nullifies any policies. Maybe she’s too dense to think it through that far. Maybe she just doesn’t care.
The answer is simple. STOP. VOTING. DEMOCRAT. Use this phrase in your daily life and when you vote. If we follow this philosophy, things will improve.
Just treat me as an illegal!
This is what you voted for Maine, live with it.
Think about it… what I get from this article is simple. If you’re a resident of Cumby County, and work there too I suppose, why bother to re register your vehicle? Save some yearly money while this is on “the books” In the meantime, stay safe from the hornets nest this woman just kicked!
So when an illegal causes an accident with major damage who’s paying for it? Got just liability it’s out of your pocket! Or do you sue the county and the DA as she has claimed responsibility for all illegals, drunks, and drones! I think I’m going to find a lawyer that wants to put it to the DA and sue her for damages!
So, let me summarize:
This is a defund the police policy
As well it will lead to civil unrest, just ahead of a potentially contentious presidential election.
Expanded on:
The police departments have many duties, including traffic. Now let’s say we arent going to prosecute traffic only crimes…. That has several impacts:
Without traffic crimes, we need fewer police
With rampant traffic crimes and no enforcement, this is going to lead to frustrated driving, that citizens will get angry over and/or take matters into their own hands. (Such as ramming another car and taking off, or the ultimate error to brandish a firearm (or is that what she is hoping for?))
Now people will carry their heightened aggregations with them to work/school/public events…. Becoming a virtual powder keg.
Finally, when an officer does a traffic stop, they sometimes catch bad people, doing other bad things. Meaning a clearer conduit for out of state narcotics to make their way to Maine’s populous. I’m sure the DA has already secured her county from illicit out of state nare(sp?) do wellers!
Way to go Jackie! Way to make your Soros funding relevant
Crooked Dems can ONLY get away with, that which Republicans ALLOW them to get away with.
So, because of her, as long as you drive a car only in Cumberland County, you don’t have to register your car or have your car inspected as long as Jackie Santoris is Cumberland County’s DA. Thank you Jackie.
“commonly associated with individuals who are present in the U.S. illegally and therefore cannot obtain Driver’s Licenses or vehicle registrations,” which likely means no insurance either, liability or otherwise. In addition to supporting them with our tax money, any damage done to the rest of us out here, well, we just have to eat it.
Deport all who are not here legally. End of story.
She can not do the job. Impeach her and sew her
HELL LADY WHY NOT MAKE ALL CRIMES LEGAL IT’LL SAVE ON TAX PAYERS HAVING TO FORK OUT MILLIONS EACH YEAR FOR USELESS LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Civilization and common sense standards have been crushed since Obama was in office. Well, guess who’s still running the show? Just heard today from a friend who is a diehard D that is considering, in a serious manner, of moving to Canada. It IS that bad.
I hope an Illegal Alien Kills the D.A. or some one the D.A. cares about!!!! If she’s capable of Caring about anything other than being a Fascist Bootlicker to the Globalist like Soros and Klaus Slob?
So why do they announce it rather than just do it secretly? Looks like they are looking for a revolution.
Another antiwhite DA installed by the man most responsible for destroying western civilization. We let them invade then we let them do as they please when they get here. No vax required either.
This is pure mayhem insanity. WTF is govt even at a local level doing that they can literally make laws disappear on a level that borders on insane ?.
This is absolutely Unconstitutional. It violates the Equal Protection clause.
What’s the point of paying the fees to get a driver’s license then? Why should underage drivers go through drivers Ed?
Seriously this is truly lunacy. At its core WHY SHOULD ANYONE FOLLOW ANY LAWS ANYMORE?!
Broken windows…
Im so thankful I left this state and moved to the south where people still have a sense of responsibility.
Soros: the biggest democrat donor.
He was a Nazi officer in ww2.
He hates humanity.
<B>What a crock of Schiff.
FINISH THE WALL then DEPORT THEM ALL.
The 2nd amendment exists for removing people (traitors) such as this DA… and the rest.
Miss Sheldon Adelson don’t you?
Cool. EVERYBODY in the state is free to not pay for license and registration fees. Take your license plates off and party like there are no laws!
My buddy was T-boned by an illegal alien last Summer when the ILLEGAL ran a red light. It totaled his truck. The State cop said:”Illegals all share one car & loan/rent it out to 10-20 people.”
These activist judges need to be disbarred and prevented from ever practicing law again.
Another option to reduce the workload is to eliminate the need to register your car in the first place. I’m all for that option! While were at it, get rid of the inspection requirements also, Maine is one of the 15 states that require that burden also!
All invaders must be deported now!
If you vote for a Soros backed DA, you’re voting to destroy America.