Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell went off on the Department of Justice and the prosecution against his client in an interview on Wednesday with MSNBC host Alex Wagner. Lowell lamented that prosecutors originally agreed to a diversion program “because of Hunter’s condition.”

“As much as the facts in the law should cool these prosecutors it looks like the heat put on by the Republican Congressman who wants to interfere in the normal course of what the Justice Department does puts up the heat, but if they are going to focus on the facts and they are gonna focus on the law, do you know what has changed since July 26th? The law changed. And this statute that they cited to the court today has been found by a Court of Appeals to be unconstitutional. Where else, other than a case in which they are cowering from the political pressure, would somebody be charged with something that is unconstitutional?” Lowell asked.

“So if they change their mind now, which they say in court, they are going to do, then the only conclusion is that the facts haven’t changed, the law, if it has changed, has only changed to make their case less strong, it has to have been the political influence, the improper political interference.”

[Well, there seems to be a lot of that with Weiss, eh? The problem isn’t that Weiss caved to political pressure by canceling the diversion agreement, but that Weiss gave Hunter Biden a deal that the DoJ doesn’t give anyone else in these situations. But Lowell’s argument does make one thing clear — Merrick Garland should never have left Weiss in charge of this case after the collapse of that deal. — Ed]