As a New Yorker, I wish Democratic state Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron would treat shoplifters, graffiti vandals, and armed robbers with just a puff of the volcanic rage with which they “get Trump.”
Former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud indictment, trial, and $354.9 million penalty are an abortion of justice. That massive sum likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment requirement that there shall be no “excessive fines imposed.”
Appellate judges should vacate this travesty, with prejudice.
Why?
First, rather than approach this case fairly, James campaigned for office by promising to persecute Trump.
“I will never be afraid to challenge this illegitimate president,” James said in 2018, heaping election denial atop bias. “I will be shining a bright light into every dark…
