{"id":2483793,"date":"2025-09-08T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fine-plans-bill-to-hold-judges-accountable-after-nc-rail-stabbing\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:01:38","slug":"fine-plans-bill-to-hold-judges-accountable-after-nc-rail-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fine-plans-bill-to-hold-judges-accountable-after-nc-rail-stabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine plans bill to hold judges accountable after NC rail stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffine-plans-bill-to-hold-judges-accountable-after-nc-rail-stabbing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2483793&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports that Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) is preparing legislation aimed at holding judges accountable for releasing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-interview-sgt-john-mattingly-exposes-the-media-lies-about-breonna-taylors-shooting\/\" title=\"Exclusive Interview: Sgt. John Mattingly Exposes The Media Lies About Breonna Taylor\u2019s Shooting\">violent repeat offenders<\/a> after the fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train. The suspect, Decarlos Brown, who has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prosecutions-star-witness-in-kyle-rittenhouse-trial-has-a-lengthy-criminal-record\/\" title=\"Prosecution\u2019s Star Witness in Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Has a Lengthy Criminal Record\u00a0\">lengthy criminal record<\/a>, was charged with first-degree murder. Fine criticized the more than a dozen judges who previously released brown, arguing they deserve to be held responsible. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has offered to co-sponsor the bill. The case has attracted national attention and become a focal point for Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, who used the incident to highlight concerns about crime in Democratic-led cities. Fine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >proposed legislation raises questions<\/a> about judicial independence and how judges should be held accountable for their decisions. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Randy Fine pushes legislation to hold judges accountable after murder of Iryna Zarutska<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2224558\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/watch\/2081191\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL)<\/a> is preparing legislation that would hold judges accountable for releasing violent repeat offenders, a move prompted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3796856\/what-to-know-charlotte-light-rail-stabbing-iryna-zarutska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fatal stabbing<\/a> of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte light rail train.<\/p>\n<p>The case has drawn national attention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3796856\/what-to-know-charlotte-light-rail-stabbing-iryna-zarutska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">after a video<\/a> surfaced showing the 23-year-old woman being attacked on board, unprompted. The suspect, 34-year-old Decarlos Brown, was arrested after the stabbing and charged with first-degree murder. Court records show Brown has a lengthy criminal history, including convictions for armed robbery, felony larceny, and breaking and entering.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3797271\/trump-federal-takeover-chicago-national-guard\/\">Trump intensifies war with Pritzker as Chicago awaits imminent decision on federal takeover<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3797135\/trump-sends-love-hope-charlotte-stabbing-victim\/\">Trump sends &#8216;love and hope&#8217; to family of Charlotte light rail stabbing victim<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3796774\/brandon-johnson-national-guard-chicago-wrong-solution\/\">Brandon Johnson calls sending National Guard to Chicago the &#8216;wrong solution&#8217; as White House finalizes plans<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Fine argued that the more than a dozen judges who previously released Brown should also be held accountable, saying they &ldquo;deserve their day in court.&rdquo; He said he would introduce legislation to tackle the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s easy to release criminals when you&rsquo;re protected by an armed bailiff at all times. The rest of us aren&rsquo;t so lucky,&rdquo; Fine <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepFine\/status\/1964790291426340938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in a post<\/a> on X. His office did not provide any additional details on the legislation, but indicated it was still in the works.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&rsquo;m going to introduce legislation to hold judges accountable when violent repeat offenders they release commit new crimes.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s easy to release criminals when you&rsquo;re protected by an armed bailiff at all times. The rest of us aren&rsquo;t so lucky. <\/p>\n<p>Those 12+ judges that released&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Congressman Randy Fine (@RepFine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepFine\/status\/1964790291426340938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) cited Fine&rsquo;s post and offered to co-sponsor the bill, writing, &ldquo;these incompetent judges must be held accountable&rdquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepLuna\/status\/1965091709051928888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> on X.<\/a> The case has quickly become central to the Trump administration&rsquo;s vow to target rising crime in big cities led by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This monster on the right is who the pro-crime Democrats want sitting next to you and your family on public transportation,&rdquo; Fine wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The stabbing attack happened on Aug. 22 but caught national attention after the Charlotte Area Transit System published the surveillance video over the weekend. Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee, was the victim of the attack as she sat on the train. She was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Her murder has become a rallying point for Republicans, with President Donald Trump seizing on the case as part of his vow to crack down on crime in large, Democratic-led cities. On Monday, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3797135\/trump-sends-love-hope-charlotte-stabbing-victim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">offered condolences<\/a> to Zarutska&rsquo;s family and pledged to confront what he called &ldquo;evil people&rdquo; in society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3796856\/what-to-know-charlotte-light-rail-stabbing-iryna-zarutska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT FATAL STABBING OF UKRAINIAN REFUGEE ON CHARLOTTE&rsquo;S LIGHT RAIL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A lunatic just got up and started &mdash; it&rsquo;s right on the tape, not really watchable, because it&rsquo;s so horrible &mdash; but just viciously stabs her. She&rsquo;s just sitting there,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;So they&rsquo;re evil people. We have to be able to handle that. If we don&rsquo;t handle that, we don&rsquo;t have a country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fine&rsquo;s proposal, still in development, is expected to raise debate over judicial independence and whether lawmakers can or should directly penalize judges for their rulings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Fine seeks law to hold judges accountable after stabbing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2657,"featured_media":2483796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25247039044735.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[55971,43031,4762,32258,62868],"class_list":["post-2483793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-judicial-accountability","tag-legal-reform","tag-legislation","tag-north-carolina","tag-rail-stabbing"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25247039044735.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483798,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483793\/revisions\/2483798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2483796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}