on Martha Coakley, the likely replacement for Ted Kennedy

Balko on Ted Kennedy's Replacement : Dispatches from the Culture Wars:

Perhaps most appalling:

It's probably not surprising, then, that as DA in Middlesex County, Coakley opposed efforts to create an innocence commission in Massachusetts, calling the idea "backward-looking instead of forward-looking." Of course, that's sort of the point -- to find people who have been wrongfully convicted. So far, there have been at least 23 exonerations in Massachusetts, including several in Coakley's home county.

That is a vile attitude for anyone in the criminal justice system to take. She has the typical attitude of prosecutors in caring more about maintaining the illusion of the system's perfection than in making sure the system actually works. With "liberals" like this, who needs conservatives?