If Republicans Are Against Lawfare, They Shouldn’t Have Unleashed It

Democrats are using the law, especially criminal law, to go after political opponents by using the system to charge them with questionable crimes.

Murray Rothbard : Lawfare is a tool by political and economic elites to accomplish the same thing as Third World dictators have done.

The elites have accepted it as a legitimate way to further their own power, he says.

The 1980s were the “Decade of Greed ” produced by Ronald Reagan , writes David Gergen .

Gergen : Giuliani had political ambitions and decided to go after Milken and other Wall Street upstarts.

He says Giuliani used RICO to criminalize routine financial transactions was new territory.

He writes: Giuliani rode his legal hero status into the mayor’s mansion in New York City .

Prosecutor Alvin Bragg ’s case was admittedly based upon “novel” legal theory and most legal observers have said it is doubtful that anyone else will be charged with the particular “crimes” that the Manhattan jurors claimed to have seen, a replay of what we saw with Giuliani ’s cases in the 1980s . While Republicans today rightly decry the political lawfare that Democrats have waged against Trump and others, they should not protest too loudly. Four decades ago , Republicans opened the box and now have found that they cannot put back what they unleashed..