In 2008, Barack Obama surged past Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary partially because of his pledge to offer a departure from politics as usual in Washington. What Obama gave the country, instead, was an attorney general who allegedly used her office to promote the election of Clinton as his successor.

In a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, former FBI Director James Comey testified under oath that, in 2016, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch asked him to refer to the investigation in Hillary Clinton’s emails as a “matter” rather than an investigation.