Georgia’s prosecutor drops a Trump case. If only Garland had done the same.

When groupthink takes hold in Washington, the consequences can be dire. That’s what happened in the middle of the Biden administration, when legal elites almost uniformly decided that Donald Trump needed to be criminally prosecuted for the events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Those who warned that the case was questionable or could backfire politically were lectured that “no one is above the law.”