Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas got her office and her cannabis store raided Wednesday. Court-authorized warrants, boxes carried out the back door, unmarked vehicles blocking the parking lot. The investigation started under Biden. The warrants were signed by a federal judge.
Lucas called it Trump retaliation. And look, that's her right. But here's what I keep waiting for someone to answer: where were these people when the FBI was raiding Mar-a-Lago, seizing a former president's passports, running wiretaps on his campaign? The same reporters who spent four years lecturing us about the sacred independence of federal law enforcement are now questioning whether court-authorized search warrants are legitimate. The institution didn't change. The party affiliation of the target did.
The FBI either operates on evidence and judicial approval, or it doesn't. You don't get to pick which raids are legitimate based on whose office got searched. That's not a principle. That's a jersey. Common sense wasn't wrong.