Special counsel Robert Hur’s decision not to prosecute President Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents is grounded on weak arguments.

Former President Donald Trump is rightly being prosecuted, accused of withholding more than two dozen highly classified documents and obstructing lawful government efforts to retrieve them. In significant part, the rationale for special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Trump is the public interest in protecting the means of how the nation and its allies gather critical intelligence against foreign adversaries. And the public interest of showing that just because someone is a former president, they don’t get a free pass on the law.