I’ve been trying to see if there’s a way to bypass DA’s and file charges directly.

Supposedly, the DA is in charge of who can be a criminal or not - which effectively makes them the gatekeeper of justice. They tend to only take on cases they know they can win, which seems to indicate that a lot of cases are ignored with their claimants potentially denied justice.

The DA is largely defined in state constitutions. Can it be undone or bypassed? What would that look like? How did these people come to exist? Forgive me if I’m sounding novice, it’s only because I am.

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/1068_87gwnesa.pdf

After the Revolutionary War, most states gave their governors, judges, or legislators the power to appoint prosecutors. Starting with Mississippi in 1832, however, states adopted new constitutions, statutes, or amendments that made prosecutors elected officials. By 1861, nearly three-quarters of the states in the Union elected their prosecutors.

If they talk about “passenger tarriffs”, where is “passenger” defined? Black’s Law? How many other things like this are we overlooking by not reading our state constitutions?

So here they are.