Letter: Don’t politicize the criminal justice system

On a recent morning I received two emails asking that I sign a petition demanding that Donald Trump be arrested or be investigated and prosecuted. I refuse to sign either. Such demands are reprehensible.They are just as reprehensible as Trump’s calls to lock up Hillary Clinton or that former Attorney General William Barr indict President-elect Joe Biden weeks before the election.As a longtime federal prosecutor, I believe the weaponization of the criminal justice system for political purpo