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in 1959, Alabama indicted Martin Luther King for felony perjury.  Like Alvin Bragg in New York, the  Alabama prosecutor (also a Democrat) who charged King ratcheted up a misdemeanor into a felony charge in an indictment that, like the Trump case, “was the first time in the state’s history that a defendant was so charged in such a case”.  

As in the Trump case, the objective of the Democrats was to sideline Martin Luther King through lawfare.