Can Derek Chauvin receive a fair trial on the murder charges he faces over George Floyd’s death? It’s a fair question considering the nationwide public anger and now hyperpoliticized context of this tragedy.

Many would be happy to subject Chauvin to a French Revolution-style terror court and see him rapidly carted off to the guillotine. If conservatives have been too uninterested in police reform, there is also a certain liberal hypocrisy here. The Left appears to have far less interest in Chauvin’s right to due process than it does for senior al Qaeda terrorists.