""One tier of justice for all Americans," the U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, wrote Thursday on X, shortly after a federal grand jury in Virginia indicted the New York attorney general, Letitia James, on charges of bank fraud and making false statements. Bondi had made a similar point, two weeks before, after the indictment of the former F.B.I. director James Comey. "No one is above the law," she proclaimed."
"This self-satisfied triumphalism misconstrues the danger posed by the prosecutions of James and Comey-and by the other cases that President Donald Trump has demanded be brought against his perceived political enemies, which may soon follow. The issue here, contrary to the Administration's framing, is not that these individuals had previously evaded accountability for allegedly criminal activity. (Those worried about the powerful being able to skirt the law"
Pam Bondi celebrated indictments of Letitia James and James Comey as evidence of equal justice, but that framing obscures a deeper danger. The Trump administration has demanded prosecutions of political enemies, raising the prospect of selective enforcement and punitive targeting. The Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. United States granted presidents near-complete immunity for official acts, leaving powerful actors insulated. The core problem is using criminal process to identify a target and then find a crime, which undermines impartial justice and treats unlike conduct unequally. Political vendettas cloaked as law enforcement threaten the rule of law.
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