New York Attorney General Letitia James, who seems to be virtually salivating at the prospect of seizing former President Donald Trump’s assets, may rue the day she brought her civil fraud case against him: Her action – launched because she’s a partisan Democrat who opposes him, and almost certainly conducted in the hope and belief it would damage Trump as a political candidate – may well end up sending him back to the White House.

James infamously campaigned for office in 2018 on a promise to go after Trump – “I will be shining a bright light into every dark corner of his real estate dealings, and every dealing, demanding truthfulness at every turn,” she said on the campaign trail.

Like Andrey Vyshinsky – Stalin’s procurator general, who oversaw the criminal trials of the Great Purge, and has been cited as the source of the fabled prosecutor’s assertion, “Give me a man and I will find the crime” – James had her target, and simply needed to find the crime.

That concept is offensive to the rule of law.

Further, despite the fact that when she was elected, he was serving as the president of the United States, she wasted no time searching for a crime she could hang around Trump’s neck. After all, while campaigning for the job in 2018, she had said, “I believe that the President of the United States can be indicted for criminal offenses.” She had a campaign promise to keep, no matter what........

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