Law? What Law?If the law is enforced selectively, it ceases to be law and becomes a hammer.
By Matthew Boose
June 12, 2023
The unprecedented federal indictment of Donald Trump raises serious political and constitutional questions. Is it prudent or fair for a prosecutor to interfere in a presidential election in such an extraordinary manner? Is there a political motive here, given the circumstances? Is it even a crime for a president of the United States to possess classified documents?
Officious liberals, and their fellow travelers on the neocon Right, want to remove the case from its political context. Trump is a criminal, they say. No one is above the law. But if the law is enforced selectively, it ceases to be law and becomes a hammer.
When prosecutor Jack Smith intoned, “we have one set of laws in this country,” it almost sounded like a challenge. Hunter Biden has been under federal investigation for five years, and evidence of money laundering and other crimes is mounting by the day. Does anyone really believe the Biden Justice Department will allow him to be charged?
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The Left is very good at obscuring their whimsical “justice” with dizzying procedural pretexts. (The New York Times’ pet conservative, David French, dresses up the Trump indictment with a new concept called “The Comey Test.”) But the law does not enforce itself, it is enforced by prosecutors who can abuse their discretion. What is happening to Trump is not even that unusual these days. Anyone who is on the wrong side of the liberal elite is a potential target of a political prosecution. Trump is just public enemy number one.
When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Trump had the right to “prove innocence” in Alvin Bragg’s bogus “hush money” case in New York, she didn’t misspeak. She was telling the truth about how Trump has been treated since his entry into politics. Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded his wild goose chase for “Russian collusion” by throwing an unconventional sop to his captive following: Trump was not charged with obstruction, but he wasn’t exonerated either.
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Trump is a former president, and a presumptive nominee in the next presidential election. The choice to indict him—and it was a choice—was an ineluctably political decision, one that will unavoidably interfere with the right of the people to choose their own leaders. But nobody made Jack Smith king of this country, and the people did not choose to be drawn into his expedition across the Rubicon.
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2023/06/12/law-what-law/
