Justice should be even-handed, but sometimes in the United States it’s not. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made that point quite tellingly and appropriately on the Senate floor earlier this week.

An observer can reject all the right-wing conspiracy theories about a “deep state” working in concert to undermine our republic, yet still see that elements of the FBI and the Department of Justice applied entirely different investigative standards between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the subjects of two recent investigations. Grassley rightly demanded more information about how those discrepancies arose.