E. Jean Carroll gets to keep her money. The Supreme Court has declined to review the $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict she won in federal court against Donald Trump. Carroll walks away enriched. Her financier – Reid Hoffman, a wealthy Democratic donor and LinkedIn co-founder who bankrolled the litigation – got his money’s worth too.

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But the rest of us are much poorer. We are left with a badly damaged legal system and a clarifying, disturbing lesson about American politics: lawfare works.

Whether you love Donald Trump or loathe him, the wave of civil and criminal litigation targeting him over the past several years should alarm you. What we have witnessed is the weaponization of judicial processes to wound a political opponent – what scholars and commentators have begun calling lawfare. The Carroll case is one of the most troubling because basic tenets of due process were abandoned for the anti-Trump forces to produce their “win.”

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