Nevertheless, losing his immigration status and the life he has built here over a possession charge cannot be called justice.

Reasonable or not, pot possession is against the law. My wife is an immigrant. When we married in 1983 and applied for her permanent residency status (the so-called “green card” that isn’t really green), we had to sign papers accepting the fact that not only did she have to obey the law, if at any time we applied for public assistance, she would be deported. Perhaps those forms have changed since 1983 but the general requirement to obey the law has not.

“Equal justice under the law” is the comforting myth we tell each other but we all know it isn’t true. I’ve see far too many examples of connected individuals getting away with things that I would go to jail for doing. If Sullivan broke the law, he should be treated exactly the same as anyone else who commits the same offense, no better and no worse. The fact that he’s getting special treatment is just another example of “Equal justice under the law” being a myth.