Out of the running? Marine Le Pen conviction upends French politics

Can justice be truly blind? Truly impartial and impervious to biases, pressures and power plays? Can citizens in this day and age agree to accept it when a court bars a presidential front runner from contesting the next election? The party of the French far-right’s Marine Le Pen calls it “an execution of democracy,” the ruling that finds nearly two dozen guilty of running a ‘system’ that funneled 2-point-9 million euros from the European Parliament to National Rally insiders.