The most dangerous threat to free markets and the rule of law at the moment just may be the budding bromance between President-elect Trump and the incoming minority leader in the Senate, Democrat Charles Schumer.
Mr. Trump’s decision to reappoint the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, was met with horror and dismay among those who, like myself, consider Mr. Bharara’s string of insider trading prosecutions, reversed by appellate courts, to be “sadistic” and “sleazy.” Those aren’t my words — they are descriptions that two distinguished federal appellate judges have applied to Mr. Bharara’s tactics.
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