We’re at a tipping point where what makes our country special — equal justice under the law — has become endangered and so perverted by the two systems of justice currently being applied in this country. It’s been coming on like a freight train since Hillary Clinton got a pass in 2016, but it’s getting worse, as we see it affecting more cases that involve politics, including with things like the 2020 riots vs. the Jan. 6 riots.

On Friday, Steve Bannon was found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to respond to the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee subpoena to testify in the show trial. He now faces 30 days to a year in prison on each of two misdemeanor charges.

All the Committee members were appointed by Democrats, so it’s not a true bipartisan committee. It is not focused on the truth, but on doing all it can to attack Republicans. It aims to hurt the GOP for the midterms, and what it can to stop Donald Trump from running in 2024.

Following the decision, Bannon told members of the media that “we may have lost,” but “We’re not going to lose this war.”

Bannon defense attorney David Schoen said that the prosecutor’s argument “completely tears asunder constitutional principle of separation of powers.”

“But shame on this office of the United States Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice for how far it is. They put forward an argument today that completely tears asunder Constitutional principle of separation of powers. They argued to the jury today that when a person gets a subpoena, and executive privilege is invoked, it’s for Congress to decide whether the executive privilege is valid and how broad it is. That’s absolutely false,” Schoen said.

Michael Barbaro, the host of the New York Times’ “The Daily,” said this showed there were “consequences” for failure to respond, and others on the left crowed about the conviction.

Pretty clear message here: defying a congressional subpoena creates consequences. https://t.co/AUlyyjjQv1

— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) July 22, 2022

But the problem is that the “consequences” seem to be all on one side, once again.

As many pointed out on Friday after the Bannon decision came down, Eric Holder was never prosecuted despite the House holding him in contempt for withholding documents from Congress in the Fast and Furious gun-running investigation — one of the many Obama scandals that never met justice because they refused to turn over evidence. It’s the difference between investigation into a real scandal vs. refusing to comply with a Stalinist show trial, and there’s only prosecution and conviction in the latter.

It wasn’t just Holder. Lois Lerner also was able to evade being prosecuted by the Obama Justice Department when she was referred for contempt of Congress in the investigation of the targeting of conservative groups.

It goes far beyond Bannon and is getting worse. It’s an incredible problem, when Americans look at this kind of thing. They can see the differences, when they can’t be assured that there is equal justice under the law. It undermines the very fabric of our society.