The simple fact that Hilzoy needed to write this qualification makes me hate Bush the Younger beyond belief, as though i didn’t already:
I’d like to give a shout-out to the Pittsburgh police. I know nothing about the officers who worked this case, but it seems unlikely that they are all Democrats, all Republicans, or all any political anything.
Imagine if somehow we could live a world where it wasn’t assumed that justice was tethered to political concerns?