The treatment the Trump Campaign is receiving in the courts is reminiscent of a passage from Atlas Shrugged [1]. The attorneys in the courtroom are described with the following words:

They all knew the verdict in advance and they knew its reason; no other reason had existed for years, where no standards, save whim, had existed. They seemed to regard it as their rightful prerogative; they acted as if the purpose of the procedure were not to try a case, but to give them jobs, as if their jobs were to recite the appropriate formulas with no responsibility to know what the formulas accomplished, as if the courtroom were the one place where the questions of right and wrong were irrelevant and they, the men in charge of dispensing justice, were safely wise enough to know that no justice existed. They acted like savages performing a ritual devised to set them free of objective reality.

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[1] Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, p. 854.