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If not break it.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.
Democrats are accusing President Trump of weaponizing the Justice Department following the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.
The grand jury in Virginia handed down two charges against Comey,
days after Trump publicly demanded action.
NPR's moralizing says the Comey indictment is a turning point that marks the end of the post-Watergate reforms,
which Watergate was a big FX scandal involving the president of the United States,
Richard Nixon, and these reforms enshrined a bunch of norms.
They weren't laws,
they were norms that were supposed to prevent presidents from intervening directly in the affairs of the Justice Department.
The idea is that justice was blind, it was supposed to be meted out fairly,
not with regard to whether you were a friend of the president or an enemy of the president.