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He has left a long trail of repugnant statements about women and minorities.

County sheriff and chief of police in Long Beach.

“They’re real people with real stories, survivors who bear the weight of crime long after the headlines disappeared. … For every statistic, there are lived experiences, people whose lives have been upended, whose sense of safety has been shattered.”

And some of his most destructive work, like accelerating the Iranian nuclear program by pulling out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2018, or imposing economic sanctions on Venezuela so severe that they catalyzed a mass migration to the United States that he was able to blame on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, were the equivalent of planting bombs that go off long after you’ve left the room.

It may be that Adkins is a long shot: The case will likely end at the Idaho Supreme Court, which already seemed to reject constitutional arguments against its state law.