He was charged with 34 counts of falsification of business records in the first degree, which is a felony in New York, and convicted in May 2024," writes Susan Thistlethwaite in a Guest Commentary.

A Harris-Trump race would pit ex-prosecutor vs. recently convicted felon. The vice president leaned into her past as a prosecutor in attacking Trump in the 2020 primary and did so again on Monday.

But no one should embrace “the prosecutor vs. the felon” narrative. That would be a mistake. Nearly 20 million American citizens have a felony conviction, and 1 in 3 people across our country ...