By Brian Beutler

From The Opinionator comes a study on the Eliot Nesses in the U.S. Attorney corps.

Key tidbit: “Data indicate that the offices of the U.S.Attorneys across the nation investigate seven (7) times as manyDemocratic officials as they investigate Republican officials, a numberthat exceeds even the racial profiling of African Americans in trafficstops,”

And you thought there was a problem here!

Cross posted at Brian Beutler

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.