The Continuing Saga of the Trump Indictments. . . . Is It Un-American to Contest an Election?

In their exhaustive efforts to find clarity amidst the muddiness of the various Trump indictments, Adam and Jeff suggest that the legal salvos being fired by both the New York State Attorney General's Office and the Department of Justice are less about actual legal claims against Trump and more about exhausting his re-election campaign--at least in a financial sense.  Indeed, the indictments seem to represent an effort by the government to criminalize the conduct of anyone complaining about the outcome of an election.  For many people, free speech seems to be a quaint idea from a simpler time that has somehow become little more than a historical curiosity.    But our commentators believe that these short-term efforts to get Trump could ultimately backfire because it will further tarnish the reputation of the Department of Justice as an impartial institution.  It will also hasten the day when the karmic wheel rolls the other way and the Democrats find themselves being targeted by government investigators.