U.S. attorney’s eugenics comments spotlight extremism within the DOJ

A U. S. attorney in North Carolina, Ellis Boyle, is facing criticism over remarks about crime that critics say echo eugenics. The Bulwark reported that, while speaking with conservative influencer Cassie Clark, Boyle claimed that 5% of the population causes 90% of crime. He suggested that if those people were taken out of society, they could not have children who pass along a bad gene pool, and that within two or three generations the population would be far better off, though he said it would take willpower, according to MS NOW.

Clark defended him on X, arguing that removing people who harm others from free society is simply incarceration, not eugenics. MS NOW opinion blogger Ja'han Jones disputes that, saying the idea of curbing a supposedly bad gene pool by removing people is a central feature of eugenics. Boyle's office did not immediately answer MS NOW's request for comment.

Jones places the episode in a wider pattern, pointing to President Donald Trump's remarks that some immigrants have "bad genes," and to Elon Musk, the Republican Party's biggest donor. He also cites Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , whom critics accuse of promoting eugenics ideology, and a resignation letter from Dr.

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