With the prosecution of James Comey, “our country has entered a grave new period of injustice,” said The New York Times in an editorial. Lindsey Halligan, a former personal lawyer for President Trump newly elevated to U.S. attorney in Virginia, obtained a grand jury indictment against the former FBI director last week on “highly dubious” charges that he made false statements and obstructed Congress during a 2020 Senate hearing. The indictment nearly didn’t happen. Scrambling to beat the statute of limitations, with no career prosecutors willing to assist, Halligan herself presented the case to the grand jury, which rejected a perjury charge and only narrowly approved the remaining counts. But happen it did, and Trump’s years of threats to prosecute his political enemies—Comey in part

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