In Donald Trump’s world, they’re calling it “lawfare”, a coy yet smug portmanteau that sounds as innocuous as it is ultimately glib.
It means using the law as a weapon against one’s political opponents, yet it’s increasingly deployed as an abstraction, shifting the focus away from the letter of the law.
“Let’s not get into the weeds of justice,” they might as well whisper.
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