Hillary Clinton supporters, including the mainstream press, are outraged that if elected president, Donald Trump intends to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Clinton’s email scandal. They’re saying that that would be akin to converting America into a “banana republic.”

But why is that? In a banana republic a new ruler simply jails or kills his political opponents, without any judicial process whatsoever. Isn’t that different from a country in which an independent prosecutor employs a long-established judicial system … Continue reading What’s Wrong with an Independent Prosecutor for Clinton?