In the here and now, let’s stick with this: No one who has been tied to Michael Cohen — from Trump himself to such Trump antagonists as Clinton apologist Lanny Davis — has ever come to him for Grade-A legal counsel. And if we could find an area of law in which Cohen had genuine expertise — other than, say, extortion — we can safely bet it would not be the esoterica of federal campaign-finance regulation, a subject matter so abstruse that, in the case of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice could not agree among themselves whether the law had been broken. (But don’t you worry — Alvin Bragg, who has no jurisdiction to enforce federal law and about as much expertise in it as Cohen, is all over the Stormy caper!)

It has been amusing, then, to observe the Lawyer Left’s latest pushback against the inconvenience that Bragg’s campaign-finance allegation against Trump — which is critical to his crusade to inflate a time-barred, misdemeanor business-records infraction into a (maybe) barely live felony — is probably dead on arrival. We can be confident that there were two campaign-finance felonies, they tell us, because Cohen pled guilty to them in a prosecution brought by Trump’s own Justice Department.

Where to begin?