Fewer than four days after a Manhattan jury shattered centuries of precedent in convicting a former president — and the opposition party’s current presidential nominee — on 34 felony counts, another criminal trial is rattling Donald Trump‘s competitor. In another first in the nation’s history, Hunter Biden has become the first son of a sitting president to undergo a criminal trial.

While both these trials have shaken up the 2024 campaign, with Trump quite literally still silenced by gag orders and Joe Biden reportedly distraught over his son’s legal woes, the trials on the merits could not be any more different, and the favorable proceedings leading to the first son’s criminal comeuppance only highlight the fundamental injustice of the nonsense show trial in New York.