The United States of Lawfare - by Peter Venetoklis

The United States of Lawfare - by Peter Venetoklis

"There's a sad irony in witnessing people who claim that the legal system is stacked against the citizens (see: progressives, police defunders, bail eliminators, non-prosecutors, and the like) happy over the pretzeling of that system for partisan political gain (see: Trump's absurd fine in New York for financial reporting irregularities)...
The Trump prosecution by state Attorney General Leticia James could be the poster child for lawfare. Financial record violations and purportedly exaggerated property valuations that 

• harmed no one, 
• that were accepted or ignored by the banks to whom they were submitted, and 
• which produced no quantifiable damages 
• were prosecuted by a zealous partisan, 
• ruled upon not by a jury of Trump's peers, but by a single judge, and 
• punished with a nine figure fine and three years of prohibition from running his businesses...