Opinion | NY Post: Democrats are already at risk of overplaying anti-Trump lawfare again

In an editorial, the New York Post's editorial board argues that Democrats are overplaying their hand on investigations before the new Congress has even been sworn in, and that the White House is right to push back.

The board points to incoming House Oversight Chairman Robert Garcia, who posted "LAWYER UP" before the last polls had closed, warning that Trump officials could face investigation and prison. It also cites New Jersey Rep. Analilia Mejia, who promised "to toss out subpoenas like Mardi Gras beads."

White House Counsel Will Scharf answered in a letter telling Garcia to cut the tough-guy act. As the Post sums up the letter, congressional investigations need a legislative purpose, law enforcement belongs to the executive branch, and Congress cannot use subpoenas and hearings to harass officials or their families.

The board says this approach has backfired on Democrats before: the Jan. 6 Committee "show trial," the Manhattan verdicts, Fani Willis' Fulton County prosecution and Jack Smith's "outrageous fishing expeditions," all of which, it argues, ended up lifting Trump to the 2024 nomination.

"No one in this nation is above the law — but no one is beneath it, either," the board writes, warning that "an endless cycle of partisan legal persecutions threatens to destroy the very democracy Democrats insist they're fighting to save."