That’s right. Letitia James, who vowed during her candidacy that she’d get Trump by hook or by crook, ended up using a seventy-year old law to ensure an over-the-top $350 million verdict against Donald Trump and the Trump organization.

The case was a clown show from the start. We have Letitia James posturing before the cameras and abandoning her duties as DA to sit ringside in the courtroom. Then there’s Judge Arthur Engoron who spent half the time preening for the cameras, and declared Trump guilty before the trial even started.

Which led to yesterday’s verdict:

New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron issued a deluge of punishments, including years-long bans on Trump and his adult sons taking top jobs in companies in the state, and he did so with biting language, castigating defendants as stubbornly unwilling to admit fault or acknowledge reality.

“Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological,” Engoron, who heard the case without a jury, said in a written decision...