Decision in Steve Bannon case is another example of our two-tiered justice system

We’re at a tipping point where what makes our country special — equal justice under the law — has become endangered and so perverted by the two systems of justice currently being applied in this country. It’s been coming on like a freight train since Hillary Clinton got a pass in 2016, but it’s getting worse, as we see it affecting more cases that involve politics, including with things like the 2020 riots vs. the Jan. 6 riots.

On Friday, Steve Bannon was found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to respond to the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee subpoena to testify in the show trial. He now faces 30 days to a year in prison on each of two misdemeanor charges.

All the Committee members were appointed by Democrats, so it’s not a true bipartisan committee. It is not focused on the truth, but on doing all it can to attack Republicans. It aims to hurt the GOP for the midterms, and what it can to stop Donald Trump from running in 2024. …

Michael Barbaro, the host of the New York Times’ “The Daily,” said this showed there were “consequences” for failure to respond, and others on the left crowed about the conviction.

But the problem is that the “consequences” seem to be all on one side, once again.

As many pointed out on Friday after the Bannon decision came down, Eric Holder was never prosecuted despite the House holding him in contempt for withholding documents from Congress in the Fast and Furious gun-running investigation — one of the many Obama scandals that never met justice because they refused to turn over evidence. It’s the difference between investigation into a real scandal vs. refusing to comply with a Stalinist show trial, and there’s only prosecution and conviction in the latter.