Editor, Gazette-Journal:

The long-running show for punishment of former Gov. Bob McDonnell goes on and on. In fact, it receives almost as much attention as former President Richard Nixon did regarding his action in the Watergate fiasco.

But I pray that what I write here will be printed to expose the frightening absence of equal justice as it applies to a former Republican governor of Virginia and a former Democrat president of our country. Yes, one governed one state and the other ruled over all the states, but each was the primary executive in charge and, according to the laws of our Constitution, justice is to be applied equally.

I recently read the book “Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton’s Impeachment,” written by two men, one a lifelong Democrat and the another, a Republican assigned by Congress to investigate former President William J. Clinton, to collect and present all evidence that was found and would be used to impeach him. This book reveals ...