Since Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg reached back to the 1930s to credit Republican Thomas Dewey for "usher(ing) in the era of the modern, independent, professional prosecutor" in Bragg's defense of his role in the conviction of former president Donald Trump, perhaps Bragg should consider a speech delivered in 1940 by U.S Attorney General Robert H. Jackson to the country's chief federal prosecutors and U.S. Attorneys.