Willis is an elected Democrat who seeks reelection next year, and her indictment is the progressive fever dream: the Trump-orchestrated insurrection with all the villains the Left loves to hate — Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jeff Clark, et al. But because Willis, like Smith, lacks proof of violence and hence proof of an actual insurrection, she is left groping for a unifying crime that would tie them all to the same conspiracy.

That’s easy, Democrats insist: Trump et al. “conspired to steal the election.” Well, look high and low through the penal law of Georgia if you’d like, but you’ll find no such offense. Notice Democrats never refer to it as “stealing” when Stacey Abrams does it. No matter. The point is: It’s simply not a crime to try to overturn an election through nonviolent means of political and legal pressure. And even if you believe, as I do, that Trump is morally and politically responsible for the violence of January 6, that is not a valid justification for distorting criminal laws in order to convict him. The criminal-justice system is not in the cosmic-justice business. To the contrary, even the worst of the worst criminals are presumed innocent, and the law is geared to make the close calls go the defendant’s way

[Be sure to read it all, especially Andy’s dismissal of the RICO predicate. In short, that exists to deal with sustained organizations with overtly criminal purposes, not ad hoc political and legal alliances of short duration and questionable motives. If any of these defendants win a removal motion, one has to think that a federal judge would put a quick end to the RICO predicate, and by doing so releasing most of the defendants except those who committed actual crimes, ie, the alleged Coffee County hack. — Ed]