David Feige makes the case in Slate that recent enforcement of obstruction of justice charges is a major shift in government power to the authoritarian end of the scale. “[W]hen the criminal law holds ordinary people to superhuman standards, we all become vulnerable to this picking and choosing. And when the government falls in love with a crime for which it can pretty much arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate anyone at any time, we are none of us safer for it.”