Dale E. Ho: “Everything here smacks of a bargain: dismissal of the indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions.”

Everything here smacks of a bargain: dismissal of the indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions.

That suggestion is fundamentally incompatible with the basic promise of equal justice under the law.

The government has broad prosecutorial discretion but that, once an indictment is brought, the court has an independent role.

What has me concerned right now is that people like the lieutenant governor of -- the outgoing lieutenant governor of Georgia, the secretary of state of Georgia, people who are very conservative, who have strong feelings about conservative…