Bill Essayli is the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles and one of the few officials actually looking at California’s election systems. On Tuesday an activist judge disqualified him from two cases because Democrats don’t want him operating in the state. Instead of answering the questions his office is raising, California is trying to limit his authority. Judge J. Michael Seabright ruled that Essayli is unlawfully serving as a de facto U.S. Attorney and barred him from participating in or supervising two criminal prosecutions. The cases themselves are ordinary—one a felon-in-possession gun charge, the other a stolen-property charge. The order isn’t immediate. The Justice Department is appealing, and Essayli has said the fight will go to the Supreme Court. This is the latest round in a long effort to restrict him after his interim appointment ended and the administration kept him in charge under different titles. Essayli is a Trump supporter and he’s effective. That’s why California is trying to shut him down. Essayli’s office has been examining voter registration practices, ballot handling, and related irregularities in a state that refuses basic citizenship verification. When a prosecutor starts asking those questions, the response from the left is to litigate the prosecutor’s title instead of the underlying claims. Judge Seabright, a Bush appointee, previously allowed Essayli to continue as first assistant. After a Ninth Circuit ruling in a similar Nevada appointment case, Seabright cited that case and tightened the restrictions on Essayli. The specific charges that Seabright doesn’t want Essayli prosecuting don’t matter here. What matters is the pattern. Democrats treat any real scrutiny of their election systems as an attack that must be slowed in court. Essayli is still in the job for now. The cases keep moving. The effort to obstruct the prosecutor continues. That’s the point of what Seabright and activist judges like him are doing. Democrats in California profit both financially and politically off the rampant fraud and will do anything they can to keep it going. That’s why they previously passed laws to limit journalists like Nick Shirley who was reporting on California fraud and why they’re now going after a U.S. Attorney for prosecuting California fraud. A properly functioning state would thank patriots who expose fraud. California treats those patriots as the problem.