What we’re witnessing now is a full-blown conservative assault on the institutions meant to restrain raw power. The conservative strategy is simple: prosecution of political enemies, stack the courts with activist judges, intimidate rivals, and then begin the imperial rule.
The recent case of James Comey offers a grim blueprint. Lindsey Halligan, a Trump loyalist who has no trail court experience was handpicked for the U.S. Attorney’s post to push the indictment forward despite justice department alarm bells. That is how you subvert the rule of law.
In a functioning legal system, you don’t indict someone unless the evidence can survive the harshest judicial tests. In this case, the evidence looks so flimsy even prosecutors privately felt the case would unravel. Yet Trump overrides them. That’s not justice; it's a sham trial.
You don’t have to fight over whether Halligan is competent or not the real point is that she was chosen for loyalty, not objectivity. This is the template to shove out independent career officials, then place partisan loyalists who follow orders, not ethics. The result is a kind of legal subservience. The DOJ becomes a branch of the conservative battle plan rather than a neutral arbiter of justice. When conservatives systematically pack courts with activist judges independence vanishes.
The Comey indictment isn’t some isolated spectacle. It’s part of a broader strategy to recast rivals as criminals, even if evidence is dubious, then turn the judicial system into a political cudgel. It’s a political enemy program masquerading as policing.
The James Comey’s indictment is the story of how legal institutions are being weaponized. And if we don’t call it what it is a coup by judicial erosion then we don’t deserve the rule of law at all.
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