Source: The UnPopulist
by Matthew Cavedon
“Much about our current political era feels unprecedented, especially the sense that the government is targeting people for their political beliefs. In December, President Trump’s Department of Justice ordered the FBI to drastically escalate surveillance of leftist groups. News has also broken that the Biden administration collected data, without a warrant, on Republican senators’ phone calls as part of Jack Smith’s criminal investigation of Jan. 6, taking advantage of inadequate legal protections for data privacy. Republicans and Democrats alike routinely express concern about ‘lawfare,’ the use of unjustified investigations and prosecutions to harass whichever party is out of power. Americans hoping for a deescalation of lawfare should seek to recover the forgotten legacy of the Constitution’s Framers: the safeguards those patriots who knew what it was to be hunted designed for times like these.” (04/22/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-political-weaponization-of-overcriminalizati