The Tennessee House has approved a bill that addresses the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office.
It would allow Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy to be audited and potentially replaced by the Tennessee attorney general. The bill will be reviewed by Tennessee senators on Thursday.
“The bill targets Shelby County only for unprecedented, intrusive oversight of a locally elected DA by an unelected Attorney General, without providing any basis for treating Shelby County differently,” Mulroy said in a statement. “It singles out federal task force cases for special treatment, even though Tennessee law provides no basis for treating those cases any differently than the many cases brought independently by local law enforcement.”
This comes after the House overwhelmingly passed the bill on Wednesday.
If the state’s attorney general finds the Shelby County DA is being too lenient on crime, the bill would allow them to audit the DA and take action.
