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Mike Pence Enabled DOJ Lawfare So Of Course He Opposes Restoring Its Victims

Pence is entitled to oppose compensating victims of lawfare. What he is not entitled to do is pretend he had no role in creating them.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence has emerged as one of the most vocal opponents of the Justice Department’s now abandoned Anti-Weaponization Fund, an initiative intended to compensate individuals harmed by politically motivated government misconduct. Pence and other critics characterized the fund as an improper use of taxpayer money, claiming it was a “bad idea from the start.” Yet Pence’s opposition is profoundly ironic, given that few public figures played a larger role in setting the chain of events into motion that made such a fund necessary in the first place. Pence now condemns as “deeply offensive” a remedy designed to address the very culture of institutional weaponization that he helped create during his time in the White House.

Contrary to much of the media coverage surrounding this controversy, the Anti-Weaponization Fund was not an extraordinary new mechanism conjured out of thin air. The payments were to be made through the Judgment Fund, a permanent, indefinite appropriation established by Congress to satisfy judgments and settlements against the federal government. In this instance, the settlement stems from litigation brought by President Trump after his confidential tax information was unlawfully disclosed. Whatever one’s view on the politics of the settlement, the underlying mechanism is a standard feature of federal law.

The larger question is not whether the government possesses the authority to compensate victims of official misconduct; it clearly does. The important question is why so many Americans now find themselves in need of such compensation in the first place.

The answer leads directly back to the firing of General Michael Flynn and, specifically, to Mike Pence’s role in that decision.

For years, the public understanding of Flynn’s removal rested on the........

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