The silliness should stop. When you’ve dug yourself a hole, it’s better to stop digging — making the first error does not oblige Garland to make the second one. …

What Garland did not anticipate — nor did anyone else — was that Pence would be found to have mishandled classified information. But as with Trump, there is no conflict-based rationale for disqualifying the Justice Department from investigating the Pence case. Commentators are now contending that there must be a special counsel for Pence because Garland appointed one for both Trump and Biden on the matter of classified documents. That, however, is the wrong analysis.

Garland brought this problem on himself by politicizing the special-counsel appointment of Trump. At this point, as a practical matter, that bell can’t be un-rung. Smith has already started working on the Trump case. Nevertheless, Garland should not compound the problem by appointing a Pence special counsel. The Justice Department can handle this and any other classified-information cases that arise as long as they don’t require the Biden Justice Department to investigate the Biden administration or the president himself.

If Garland wants to get right on special counsels, he should appoint one for what the media-Democrat complex deceptively label the “Hunter” Biden case. The attorney general should have done that two years ago.

[I despise special counsels anyway. Not only do they exercise practically unchecked prosecutorial power in defiance of the constitutional checks on such power, they never pay off. As in, *at all*. They are the DoJ’s version of a “blue ribbon commission.” Congress needs to repeal the special counsel statute and take its oversight responsibilities seriously. — Ed]