Clinton email evidence so far doesn't suggest intent to break law, officials say … Prosecutors and FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server have so far found scant evidence that the leading Democratic presidential candidate intended to break classification rules, though they are still probing the case aggressively with an eye on interviewing Clinton herself, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. –Chicago Tribune

When the scandal broke that Hillary Clinton had been using her personal email to send classified documents, the presidential hopeful was put in a precarious position. Now, as her case develops we see that it is the country's legal system as a whole that finds itself between a rock and a hard place.

If Hillary is not indicted the population will see that the justice is not being doled out equally, with those at the top seemingly above the law.

On the other hand, if she is indicted, the resultant furor will likely create other negative perceptions.

The US justice system does not need more bad news, especially after the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who many believe was murdered.

Destabilized justice systems are bad for their nation-states. Nonetheless, in the US, such destabilization continues apace. Hillary Clinton is going to exacerbate that trend.

A March 2014 Rasmussen poll found that 43% of Americans believed that US justice is "unfair" to most Americans. Only 33% of those polled thought it was fair to poor Americans. 58% Americans trusted a jury more than a judge.

An April 2015 Harvard poll revealed that half of young Americans lacked confidence "in the nation's justice system or don't trust their local police to do the right thing."

Even more abysmally, a recent CNN poll revealed that "just 13% of Americans agree that the U.S. government "can be trusted to do what is right always or most of the time."

 The news about US federal institutions is increasingly bad. Edward Snowden's revelations of illegal NSA domestic spying created a significant furor.

The FBI's unconstitutional worldwide expansion is less well known, but its quasi-manufactured terrorist incidents have received widespread coverage in the alternative 'Net media, much of it disapproving.

The increasing violence of civilian police officers is well known and subject to considerable mainstream reporting.

Then there are plans by such individuals as George Soros to exploit people's unhappiness via such groups as Black Lives Matter.

There are alternatives to the current system of course. Here at DB, for instance, we've helped remind people that justice used to private and ad hoc.

If people had difficulties with one another, a third party was brought into adjudicate. Or the differences were simply settled between the parties concerned.

Occasionally there was violence, but for the most part such violence was either a last resort or presented to motivate the parties concerned to settle matters peaceably.

That is not the case today. In the US alone there are perhaps six million involved in the prison system at any one time. But these statistics do not encompass the totality of the US criminal-industrial complex.

In fact, the trend is toward private prisons that basically condemn prisoners to slavery so long as they are incarcerated. Private operators of prison systems even have contracts in place that mandate communities must generate a certain level of convictions.

Some years ago USA Today carried an article citing the absurd statistic (as we recall) that one out of every three individuals had experienced some sort of potential criminal interaction with the US justice system by the time they were in their mid 20s.