America is writhing under a justice system that is unjust. More and more openly, prosecutors, judges and politicians are turning courts of law into courts of favoritism and political agenda. They treat some people as if they are privileged to break the law, while treating others as prey.

Most people say that no one is above the law and that everyone should have equal access to justice. But many of those in control are giving in to the pull of human nature to put their interests, ideologies, careers and political allies above the law.

This era in American history is a stark illustration of why we need one standard of justice.

A Sacrifice for Law

American justice has always been imperfect. However, there were times when people sacrificed their own interests for the sake of upholding the law.

Imagine that you live under an oppressive government that, among other things, requires you to pay taxes but grants you no say in that government’s policies. You protest. The government deploys troops to force you to comply. A group of your neighbors finally boils over with anger, surrounds a group of soldiers, and starts throwing insults—then objects—at them. The soldiers open fire and kill five people. The city newspapers label it a “massacre,” and the soldiers are arrested and tried for murder.

You love your home and your country, and you resent the abuses of the government, especially the garrisoning of solders in your city.

But when you look into the law and you apply it to the facts of this situation, you see that the soldiers did not break the law.

Would you risk your career, your reputation and the wrath of your countrymen to defend these hated soldiers in court? This is exactly what Massachusetts lawyer John Adams did in 1770 for Capt. Thomas Preston and eight other British soldiers who perpetrated the famous Boston Massacre. Why? Because of the law and because of justice: They were charged with murder, “malice aforethought,” but they had not had such malice.

If it were colonists who had killed five soldiers under similar circumstances, the Americans would have demanded a fair trial and appealed to the right and law of self-defense. Adams’s argument was for equal justice, no matter what. As Adams said in his concluding statement, “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence … [The law] commands that which is good, and punishes evil in all, whether rich or poor, high or low.”

A Massachusetts colonial jury acquitted all soldiers of murder and convicted two of manslaughter. Many Bostonians were angry with Adams. But many realized what he and the members of the jury had done. Even in the most trying and tempting circumstance to wield the law as a weapon of vengeance, they had instead upheld it, submitted to it, and applied one standard of justice. The colony later chose him to represent Massachusetts at the First Continental Congress, and the nation elected him as its second president.

Freedom can only prevail when government governs people according to set legal principles, not by leaders’ fancies or whims. That is why John Locke (one of Adams’s favorite authors) wrote there must be “one rule for rich and poor, for the favorite at court and the countryman at plow.” It is also why Moses wrote, “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty …” (Leviticus 19:15).

When people in power use the law for their own agenda and to the detriment of their enemies, freedom dies—and the race is on to seize power by any means possible.

Double Standard

For generations now, Americans have taken the law for granted. But as court cases have filled the headlines in recent years, we are forced to face the question: Does America uphold the rule of law today, or are we a different people from our Founding Fathers?

For instance, two people campaign for office. One hires a lawyer to help find negative information about the other. To hide the truth of the matter, the candidate labels the payments to the lawyer as “legal services.”

Meanwhile, the other candidate is accused of having an adulterous affair. Through his lawyer, he pays the accuser to keep quiet. These payments are also labeled “legal expenses.”

Both candidates are accused of falsifying business records. The campaign of the first is fined $9,000 by the Federal Election Commission, while the other is criminally convicted with 34 felonies.

How is this justice? The Hillary Clinton campaign funneled $168,000 to former British spy Christopher Steele for a dossier accusing Donald Trump of illicit business ties with Russian oligarchs, while doing everything in its power to keep people from finding out about their sponsorship of this scandalous document. Clinton got away with only a small fine. Yet Donald Trump was charged on 34 counts for “falsifying business records in the first degree, in violation of Penal Law §175.10” because he gave his lawyer $130,000 to pay a pornographic actress to stop alleging a sexual encounter from years prior.

This is clearly a case of those in power using one rule for their favorite and another for their opposition. The Federal Bureau of Investigation used the Clinton-Steele dossier to get a warrant to spy on Donald Trump’s campaign, so the justice system cannot charge Clinton with anything serious without admitting that the fbi played an integral part in the infamous Russia collusion hoax. Trump has no such favor with the fbi, the Biden regime or the New York justice system, so he has become America’s first former president to be convicted of a felony essentially for making a nondisclosure agreement.

Republicans across America are now crying, “Weaponized justice,” but you don’t have to be a staunch conservative to see that America’s justice system is now openly two-tiered. A poll conducted two years ago by the Trafalgar Group found that 79 percent of respondents said there was “one set of laws for politicians and Washington, D.C., insiders” and “one set of laws for everyday Americans.” President Trump has thrown in his lot with the everyday Americans, so now he is being treated like one.

This is exactly what John Locke and John Adams warned against.

Two-Tiered Justice

Consider the facts of another situation. Attorneys discover classified government documents in a locked closet at a major university. They report them to the National Archives and Records Administration and discover that they include briefing memos on Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom. The Department of Justice opens an investigation and finds still more documents, unsecured at the politician’s home. This politician, who has never had classification authority, has been doing this for years.

The attorney general appoints a special counsel to investigate “possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents,” but the counsel rules that the offending politician “would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Therefore, “no criminal charges are warranted in this matter” as the documents could have been left by “mistake.”

Meanwhile, the National Archives became aware of some missing letters and notes from world leaders to an American president. They contact the president, who does have classification authority, about the whereabouts of these documents, and his lawyers acknowledge that he took 12 boxes of documents to his home after leaving the White House. The National Archives begins the official process to retrieve these documents, but before this process can be completed, fbi agents raid the home looking for whatever they can find. The raid turns up no additional documents, but the former president is still charged with 37 felonies.

Why is the second politician treated more harshly than the first? Because he is Donald Trump and the first politician is Joe Biden. One rule was applied to the favorite at court and another rule for a man representing millions of countrymen at plow.

At this point, the two-tiered standard of justice is so blatant that the Biden regime is advertising the fact that it is above the law. By sending the fbi to raid the home of a man who was already discussing what he was allowed to keep with the National Archives, the Biden regime hopes to intimidate its critics. And by refusing to charge Biden of any wrongdoing for illegally keeping documents at the Penn Biden Center, it advertises that in today’s America, the rulers are above the ruled.

Political Prosecution

Leftist lawfare against Trump is casting a spotlight on the two-tiered standard of justice in America, but the 45th president of the United States is far from the only one being unjustly prosecuted.

J. Christian Adams, an attorney formerly employed by the U.S. Department of Justice in the George W. Bush administration, says he first witnessed this policy of selective law enforcement shortly after Barack Hussein Obama took office. “As an attorney inside the Voting Section in the notorious Civil Rights Division run by Tom Perez, I witnessed justice for thee but not for me as early as 2009,” he wrote on June 3. “Early in the Barack Obama administration, we were told explicitly to stop enforcing federal laws that required voter roll maintenance of the dead and ineligible. Progressives didn’t like that part of the law, and they said so. The laws the left doesn’t like are erased by bureaucratic hostility.”

Adams resigned from the Department of Justice after it dismissed his voting rights case against the New Black Panther Party for stalking a polling station. He believes the Obama administration’s unwillingness to prosecute the Panthers was the beginning of a new era of unequal justice. After Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner admitted in 2013 that the irs had given extra scrutiny to conservative groups with terms like “tea party” or “patriot” in their names, this fact became blatantly obvious.

The Steele dossier, which Clinton falsified business records to produce, wrongly accuses Trump of crimes that Hunter Biden may have actually committed. The research group Marco Polo compiled a 630-page analysis of one of Hunter Biden’s laptops, documenting how Hunter procured the sexual services of women from prostitution rings (some linked to Russia) and pressured staffers into having sex with him. This analysis chronicles 459 violations of state and federal law. Yet Hunter Biden has been charged with only two tax misdemeanors and three firearm possession felonies.

Some claim these five charges prove that even the president’s son is not above the law. Yet when these charges are weighed against the evidence of money laundering and sexual exploitations exposed by the laptop, it becomes evident that Hunter is a “favorite at court.” In fact, the sweetheart plea deal initially offered to Hunter gave him no jail time and exempted him from prosecution on his other, more serious offenses. It is only because people complained about the blatant double standard that Hunter may be given a slightly more serious punishment.

In the three years since the Jan. 6, 2021, protests at the U.S. Capitol, federal prosecutors have charged more than 1,265 defendants and secured sentences of incarceration for more than 460 of them. Yet hundreds of protesters are being held in jail without bond awaiting trial. This is draconian punishment without trial for people who probably aren’t guilty of any crime more serious than trespassing. Are the transgender rights protesters who stormed the Oklahoma Capitol last summer being treated the same way? Of course not. The U.S. justice system is trying to make an example of those who question the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. They have no interest in prosecuting transgender activists trying to intimidate Oklahoma lawmakers.

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Trump, was given a four-month prison sentence this summer for defying a congressional subpoena. Eric Holder, Obama’s attorney general, and Hunter Biden have both bragged about doing the same thing without consequences.

Spokane, Washington, has charged three teenagers with first degree “malicious mischief” for leaving skid marks on a crosswalk painted in rainbow colors for “pride month.” Yet on university campuses across the country, protesters have called for Jewish genocide, with no consequences. Demanding the eradication of Jews is apparently not a hate crime, but skidding on a crosswalk is. It truly is a mad world—with rules for thee, but not for me.

Such selective law enforcement destroys the nation. The U.S. Constitution prohibits selective enforcement of the law based on race, religion or sex, but more and more courts are selectively enforcing the law based on political views and party affiliation. Republicans are prosecuted and punished severely while Democrats are never charged. There is one rule for the favorite at court and another for the countrymen at plow.

One Manner of Law

Throughout human history, the powerful have oppressed the powerless. The ancient law code of King Hammurabi of Babylon is recognized as a great advancement in the rule of law, yet even this law established different punishments for men and women, rich and poor.

God had to combat this way of thinking in the nation of Israel by commanding, “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour” (Leviticus 19:15), and that “Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country …” (Leviticus 24:22).

This was a revolutionary law code. God revealed through Moses that even kings had no license to break the law (Deuteronomy 17:14-20). There was “one manner of law” for everybody, whether poor or rich, peasant or king. It was wrong to prosecute one type of person for law-breaking while showing lenience to others for the same offense.

For centuries after the Exodus, Israel was the only nation that even tried to enforce the principle now known as lex rex, the idea that the law is king and that rulers are subject to the nation’s laws no less than citizens. It was this principle that inspired John Adams to defend the British soldiers at Boston. It was also this principle that inspired the 56 signatories of the Declaration of Independence and the 39 signatories to the U.S. Constitution to fight for a new nation where equal justice was a founding principle.

The fact that the Obama-Biden administration is now prosecuting its critics for allegedly breaking laws that Democrats break with impunity is a sign that America is entering a dangerous rex les era where the “king” is the law instead of the law being king.

The Bible actually prophesies of this dangerous new era.

The book of Daniel is prophecy for this end time (e.g. Daniel 12:4). Daniel 8:12 says, “And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.” Antiochus iv Epiphanes fulfilled this prophecy when he desecrated the temple in Jerusalem with an idol of himself. An end-time Antiochus is fulfilling the same prophecy, wreaking similar destruction in America today.

Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry explains in America Under Attack (request a free copy) that a political Antiochus is destroying America’s founding principles. The most anti-Bible president in U.S. history, Barack Obama, fulfills this role. He is out of office now, but his lawfare strategy of targeting political opponents has gone into hyperdrive under Biden.

The word transgression means rebellion or sin. The reason Obama has such success casting truth to the ground and destroying equal justice before the law is that people are consumed with sin. They want favoritism for themselves and their political allies, so they are unwilling to stand up for the truth. Even many conservatives do not care about the law enough to defend it at all costs. This makes it far easier for an organized host to do away with it.

God is exposing the corruption in U.S. politics so people have a chance to repent before a lawless spirit destroys America by replacing equal justice with the horrifying rule of brute force.