MICKEY KAUS: “It was illegal for John Edwards to get Rachel ‘Bunny’ Mellon to give many thousands to hide his mistress in order to help him become president–-but giving many thousands to fund a BS-y antipoverty institute that had exactly the same purpose is OK? … It seems to me this is the key legal question the prosecution will have to answer. If the line is vague as I think it will be, should this really be a criminal case?”