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Jussie Smollett’s Conviction Has Been Reversed

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Actor Jussie Smollett arrives at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago, Ill., March 14, 2019.

Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters

Maybe Chicago’s top law “enforcement” official, Cook County’s George Soros– and Big Labor–backed progressive prosecutor, Kim Foxx, is malevolent. Maybe she’s incompetent. Maybe it’s both — the two possibilities, after all, are not mutually exclusive.

Whatever the explanation, Foxx is responsible for the Illinois supreme court’s stunning reversal of Jussie Smollett’s conviction for staging an ostensibly racist and homophobic attack on himself (designed to defame Trump supporters) and then filing a false report about it — causing Chicago police to waste valuable time and resources.

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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