Before President Donald Trump stuffed the Department of Justice full of his personal criminal attorneys and other assorted minions with a cult-like devotion to him, the possibility of a defendant prevailing on a selective or vindictive prosecution motion was vanishingly small. But now, the administration’s targeted efforts are so transparent, so bad faith, that they may actually break new ground in, well, losing.

Right now, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is trying to get Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to testify under oath as part of the Salvadoran immigrant’s vindictive prosecution claim. And the Trump administration is howling about it with a long whine of how dare you besmirch the intentions of Todd Blanche!

Usually, as in nearly 100% of the time, a defendant can’t haul the person prosecu

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