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Alan Dershowitz has long opined about the criminalization of politics. He has it backwards: the issue in America is the politicization of crime. Politicians and their stooges get special treatment from the DOJ on the theory that "voters should decide"...how *crimes* are resolved.
1/ You don't have to squint hard at Mueller's report to see Mueller saying he *might* have indicted Trump Jr. and subpoenaed Trump Sr. and brought new charges against Manafort after Manafort lied to the feds but the cost—the *political* cost of DOJ doing its job—was too high.
2/ Just so, Michael Flynn has violated his plea deal, which means that deal should disappear *immediately*. All charges warranted by the facts should now be brought against Flynn and the feds should seek more than a decade in federal prison, as those charges would richly warrant.
3/ By the same token, the millions of poor people sitting in jail on petty crimes tonight don't give a rat's ass (excuse my language, but my public defender dander is up) about billionaire Thomas Barrack being "cooperative." He should be charged for *any/all crimes* he committed.
4/ There's ample room in America for "criminal justice populism"—the simple idea that we don't treat the rich, famous or powerful any differently as defendants as anyone else. If you don't like how we're treating everyone else, change that—not just how you treat billionaires.
