Trump was convicted of 34 charges of falsifying business records with intent to conceal another crime. Alvin Bragg and his allies defend the prosecution as just, but their defenses are poor.
It is a poor defense of Bragg’s prosecution to say, as a New York Times columnist did, that it was based on a “mountain” of evidence, because more than evidence is required to make a prosecution just. Likewise, it is a poor defense of Bragg’s prosecution to say that a jury of Trump’s peers handed down the verdict because more than a jury verdict is required to make a prosecution just.
We would not say, for instance, that the prosecution of Richard and Mildred Loving for violating Virginia’s 1924 law outlawing interracial marriage was just even though there was ample evidence that Richard was white and Mildred black. Neither would we say that the conviction of Percival…
