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NEW POLL: will Kash Patel get confirmed? [1]

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Date: 2024-12-03  

Instead of a book review today, this note: With Donald Trump's nomination of Kash Patel to run the FBI one thing is clear: The indispensable line between politics and criminal justice in America is disintegrating. Patel has, for example, said that “We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections.”

Indeed, politicians, pundits, and everyday people increasingly want their political opponents prosecuted. Winning elections, legislative victories, and hearts and minds is no longer enough. Americans now long to see their fellow citizens behind bars. More and more, prosecutors oblige—bringing cases because of one’s political affiliation rather than one’s guilt or innocence.

This undermines not just the rule of law, but the nation as a whole.

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