Beyond ineptitude and bad faith, one element connecting the Trump administration’s political prosecutions against James Comey and Letitia James is animus. Indeed, the word animus appears dozens of times in Comey’s and James’s respective motions to dismiss their indictments as vindictive and selective, standards reserved for prosecutions that can be explained by nothing else but the government’s hatred toward its targets. Because they lack a legitimate official purpose, these kinds of prosecutions tend to be riddled with errors and irregularities, such as the resignation of upstanding government officials who refuse to bring trumped-up charges, the refusal of career attorneys to sign their names to otherwise routine charging documents, and the search for lackeys who may be willing t

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