Foxx admits she never actually recused herself in Smollett case

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(Townhall) It’s been a bad week for Chicago State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, the prosecutor whose office allowed indicted hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett to walk without even issuing an apology to the city he smeared. It’s about to get worse. She supposedly recused herself (more on that later) from the case over improper contact with a politically-connected Smollett advocate, and at least one unidentified member of the accused actor’s family — yet her office ended up giving him the sweetheart deal of a lifetime. The move drew the ire of a wide swath of Chicagoans, including the Democratic Mayor and the police force. In response to the raging firestorm, the nation’s nonpartisan association of district attorneys released a statement that picked apart Foxx’s entire approach to this debacle, savaging her actions in an unsparing point-by-point memo:

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