The Trump Justice Department’s indictment of former FBI director James Comey has been received with widespread incredulity, both because of the shady circumstances around its filing and the extraordinary weakness of the case.

Yet Lindsay Halligan, the US attorney who brought that indictment, seems unbothered. Indeed, she very quickly moved on to the next task at hand: getting New York Attorney General Letitia James indicted for similarly dubious charges, which she accomplished Thursday.

Meanwhile, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is heading a sweeping effort that he hopes will get leading Democratic groups and donors indicted for supporting purported “left-wing terrorism.” This seems similarly unlikely to stick in court.

Watching all this unfold — the weaponization of the US Justice Department, in efforts that mostly seem groundless or doomed — I’ve recalled a phrase Steve Bannon coined during President Donald Trump’s first term. Describing how the right could push back against the mainstream media, Bannon said they had to “flood the zone with shit.”

Trump and Miller, it seems, are trying to target the opposition by flooding the zone with shit. They are going to bring one bogus investigation and prosecution after another. If one flops, they’ll swiftly move on to the next — often, perhaps, against the same people already indicted. (There is already talk in MAGA-land of what else

© Vox