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> It’s generally a bad look to arrest your political opponents.

Its generally bad look to let criminals go free because of status, especially if the status is political position. The first demonstrates that the law is tool of control of those with lesser status, and the latter specifically promotes escalating abuses (the US since Watergate is, actually, quite a good example of this.)



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