The anti-Trump lawfare that nearly destroyed the Republic did not operate in a vacuum. It was part of a broader culture of prosecutorial abuse that the Biden Justice Department perfected and deployed against anyone who got in the way. Rishi Shah, the founder of Chicago health tech company Outcome Health, is another in a long line of examples. His case should horrify Americans of all political stripes, and it is long past time for the national press to pay attention.

A bombshell oral argument at the Seventh Circuit in USA v. Rishi Shah is making waves in legal circles. The judges were not merely skeptical of the government's conduct; they were bewildered by it. Judge Thomas Kirsch put it plainly: "I've actually never heard of anything like this." That is not a minor procedural quibble from a federal appellate judge. That is an alarm bell.

The DOJ brought criminal charges against Shah after a Wall Street Journal article reported that a sales executive at Outcome Health had been inflating numbers. The conduct that followed was extraordinary. The Biden DOJ illegally seized Shah's assets, including over ten million dollars in funds that could not be traced to any fraud. This was money Shah needed to pay his lawyers. The government later admitted it broke the law. But by then, Shah had already gone to trial without the counsel he wanted.

Judge Michael Scudder captured the........

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