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George Gascón issued a slate of progressive edicts that many prosecutors in his office said handcuffed them in the fight against crime.

Remember, the Supreme Court raised the stakes of this election when the Republicans on the bench issued an edict that destroyed democracy.

His positions largely boil down to reversals of Gascón’s edicts and a promise to operate in “the hard middle.”

In hearing Kuhn’s edict, my mind flipped back to my anticipatory excitement when I’d ridden the subway from my office in midtown Manhattan to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx that Monday afternoon.

Pete issued an edict that, according to his careful calculations, there would be 18,256 deaths from the disease in the United States.