How Carbon County Attorney Alex Nixon Uses and Abuses His Office to Shield the Good Old Boy Club and Silence Critics
OPINION & EDITORIAL
By Lisa Bennett
When a citizen sits in the dock of a courtroom, the message delivered by the State of Montana is absolute, solemn, and unyielding. You are told that the law is a sacred shield, that public safety is paramount, and that rules apply to everyone equally. We are lectured on personal responsibility by prosecutors who wear the mantle of the public trust like a badge of moral superiority.
But what happens when the man holding the charging pen—Carbon County Attorney Alex Nixon, who decides entirely in his own discretion whose life gets upended by a criminal charge—decides that those rules are optional for himself.
