The Justice Department’s proposed “anti-weaponization” fund is one of those ideas that sounds righteous in theory but politically combustible in practice. The basic claim behind it isn’t hard to understand: if federal agencies used government power to punish people for their politics, beliefs, speech, associations, or religious convictions, those people deserve more than a polite…
Justice or Just Politics? The Comey Case Exposes Washington’s Rotten Double Standard
When a federal judge says the Justice Department may have “indicted first and investigated later,” that’s a flashing red light over the temple of American justice. That’s what Judge William Fitzpatrick said this week in the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, who’s accused of lying to Congress back in 2020 about FBI…
The Comey Indictment: Accountability or Political Score-Settling?
Yesterday, the news cycle practically tripped over itself when word broke that a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, had indicted James Comey on two criminal counts: making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. The charges trace back to September 2020, when Comey sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee and fielded questions…