“One tier of justice for all Americans,” the U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, wrote Thursday on X, shortly after a federal grand jury in Virginia indicted the New York attorney general, Letitia James, on charges of bank fraud and making false statements. Bondi had made a similar point, two weeks before, after the indictment of the former F.B.I. director James Comey . “No one is above the law,” she proclaimed. This self-satisfied triumphalism misconstrues the danger posed by the prosecutions of James and Comey—and by the other cases that President Donald Trump has demanded be brought against his perceived political enemies, which may soon follow. The issue here, contrary to the Administration’s framing, is not that these individuals had previously evaded accountability for allegedly

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