Hardly anyone wants to see a Biden-Trump re-run. In an embrace of mutual support and loathing, they survive due to their dominance of their own political bases and how much their base voters detest the other. If one falls, so would the other.

But it should not be this way. Donald Trump could have been knocked out of the race a long time ago, if not for the political incompetence, venality and ignorance of Merrick Garland, Alvin Bragg and Aileen Cannon. If these three stooges of jurisprudence had acted competently and ethically, Trump would be out and Biden with him.

Merrick Garland: Politically Incompetent

When Garland was named attorney general, it looked like a smart pick. Clearly one of his main priorities would be to investigate Trump. And who better? Garland is a highly experienced, bland sort. He was vetted during his Supreme Court appointment. He was a man with no real skeletons in his closet and, most importantly, not likely to be scheming for Biden’s job. He was the anti-Andrew Cuomo.

Loathed by Democrats, impetuous, contemptuous of rules of procedure and prone to self-sabotage, Trump should have been an easy target. But it presented Garland with a difficult political dilemma. Investigating a former president by the administration of the man who beat him would always be open to charges of Nixon-style use of federal law enforcement for political gain.

Garland dithered in his investigation, allowing the calendar to close in on him. Like it or not, prosecuting politicians must include political calculations and no more so that prosecuting a former president. An “I’m above politics” attitude and conduct is farcical.

But Garland’s colossal blunder was not naming a special prosecutor right on the heels of the July portion of the January 6th Committee hearings. At that point there was a trove of incendiary information — even if it was stage-managed by........

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