Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a written order late Sunday formally rescinding the Trump administration’s proposal for a $1.8 billion fund intended for those who suffered under political prosecutions. The step clears a path past the impasse that had stalled his confirmation as the permanent head of the Justice Department. Republican senators had demanded the formal abandonment of the fund as the price of their support, revealing once more the enduring power of institutional caution even within the party that had campaigned against the weaponization of law.

It is little wonder that those senators who once lent their voices to the theatrical framing of January 6th as an “insurrection” now resist any mechanism that might expose the full record. As additional evidence accumulates that elements within the FBI and related intelligence agencies were not merely passive observers but active participants in the events surrounding the Capitol, the protective scaffolding erected around that narrative begins to crack. The reluctance to allow a public reckoning is not difficult to understand; careers and reputations were built upon a particular interpretation of that day, and interpretations, once institutionalized, defend themselves with tenacity.

Yet the deeper obligation remains. Congress will eventually have to confront the task of compensating the ordinary American citizens who were subjected to the previous administration’s campaign of lawfare and selective enforcement. The machinery of the Merrick Garland Justice Department was turned against political opponents with a thoroughness that exceeded ordinary prosecutorial discretion. Restoring a measure of equity to those who endured that pressure is not a matter of partisan score-settling; it is a necessary corrective if the principle of equal justice is to retain any meaning.

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