I’m feeling a bit as though I had been preempted. I had been preparing a post on President Trump’s “anti-weaponization” fund but his announcement that he was not implementing it has made that unnecessary. I’ll just mention a few of my thoughts.
First, I thought that the president was pointing to a very real injustice—that the Supreme Court had found that the federal obstruction statute had been applied too broadly. But it was the wrong remedy for the problem. Those who pay taxes and those who feel monetization of the debt most acutely were paying for something over which they have little control while for those doing the enforcing the incentives did not actually change.
My ideal situation is that the law be enforced vigorously and even-handedly and those doing the enforcing be held responsible if they do so unjustly. With the “anti-weaponization” fund, we are no closer to that ideal than without it.
