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The executive and the judiciary are separate branches of the government. Their separate roles are pretty clear. The justice department, under the purview of the executive branch, prosecutes, while the judiciary judges the cases. But among the abuses of the judicial coup has been the bizarre spectacle of judges removing prosecutors appointed by President Trump and replacing them with their own choice of prosecutors. The prosecutors who are removed invariably share conservative politics while their replacements share the radical politics of the judges appointing them.

When police build a case around severe harm to children, the signal fact is procedural, not rhetorical: charges advance when investigators believe they can prove intent and mechanism, even as some clinical details remain provisional. The Spartanburg case — two young siblings found grievously wounded and their mother charged with attempted murder — illustrates how that standard is met and why it matters.