There Is Bipartisan Lawfare, but There Is No 60-Day Rule

If you could get past the banana republic aspect of lawfare (I can’t, but stay with me here), there was wry amusement to be had in the Democrats’ lawfare against Donald Trump: Their theory was that he had tried to influence the outcome of the 2020 election; their remedy was to try, themselves, to influence the 2024 election by timing indictments and trials against him to destroy his candidacy.

This illustrates a notable feature of lawfare — the incumbent party’s politicized exploitation of the government’s law enforcement powers against its partisan foes and other politically useful scapegoats. The fact that a prosecution is politicized does not mean it is meritless.