Unequal application of the law. If everyone is prosecutable, but only some are prosecuted, that amounts to arbitrary power and control.
Practically speaking, the 1st thing to do is take down the most “public” and blatant violators of the law. As long as a vigorous, sustained, and consistent effort is made to do so, those accused cannot cry “unfair”, just because not all are caught.
This is somewhat analogous to catching speeders: The Highway Patrol cannot arrest everyone speeding, but they can make a public show of catching the worst offenders, which helps to hold down overall speeds, if not the number of offenders. If your officers and other information indicates “insufficient effect”, then ramp up enforcement.
The argument “but officer, what about that guy who passed me 5 miles back?” holds no water.
Insofar as political corruption goes, I think the efforts against it in IL need to be at least quadrupled.
You have mistaken the gist of my remark.
I was opining over the (welcome) spectre of the law being
applied to all politicians in a universal even-handed manner.