Republican DA bucks blue states broken sentencing with tough-on-crime approach

A tough-on-crime Republican district attorney is using his years of prosecuting some of the most infamous cases in Colorado to crack down on crime across the blue state. In January, George Brauchler became the first-ever district attorney for Colorado’s 23rd Judicial District, making it the first time in more than 60 years that Colorado added a new judicial district. He previously served as DA for the 18th Judicial District, where he prosecuted some of the state’s biggest mass shooting cases, including at an Aurora movie theater and Columbine High School.“I was a very young prosecutor when Columbine happened, and Columbine was the high school immediately to the south of where I graduated from high school,” Brauchler told Fox News Digital during an interview.“And so, when it occurred to be assigned to prosecute the felonies out of that, I thought at the time that would be the biggest, worst case I would ever handle, and I was wrong and that’s an amazing revelation to come to in this job.”Soon after Brauchler was elected to a “broader version” of his current jurisdiction, the Aurora theater shooting case happened.“A guy walked into a movie theater at about 2:25 in Alameda and tried to murder a theater full of people, and I ended up prosecuting that.

We also ended up having a mass shooting here at a school at the end of my time in office.I was also asked to do the mock cross-examination of the victim in the Kobe Bryant rape case out of Vail back, I don’t know, almost 20 years ago now.

It’s not anything you could really ever plan for.It’s just, you’re there.

You always say yes,” Brauchler explained while reflecting on his earlier career.“You end up developing a skill set and an expertise.And then you find yourself in a position to run for the first new district attorney’s office in over 60 years in Colorado.

And you think, for whatever it’s worth, as humbly as I can put this, there just isn’t anybody that brings to this jo...