Critics have dismissed concerns about political prosecutions under the Geneva Conventions. Some have suggested Geneva and the Wecht trial are not connected.

The NYT does not agree that prosecutions are not partisan.

The AP is reporting that political decisions are improperly tainting US trials at Guantanamo.

AP: "The ruling will fuel defense challenges in other trials at this U.S.
Navy base, where a former chief prosecutor and defense lawyers have
accused Air Force Brig Gen. Thomas Hartmann, the legal adviser to the
tribunals, of demanding that certain cases be pursued over others based
on political considerations."

The DoD General counsel, planning trials for POWs at Guantanamo, said,

"Wait a minute, we can't have acquittals".

The NYT implicitly linked the President with selective prosecutions against Wecht, a Democrat:

NYT Editorial: "There is by now strong reason to believe that [the President and others] were involved in plans to fire United States attorneys for political reasons, fill other important positions on the basis of partisanship rather than competence and order prosecutions designed to help Republicans win elections."

Political prosecutions and other questionable conduct at the Wecht trial are related to the DoD questionable conduct at Guantanamo. The Justice Trial reminds us that judges, if they refuse to enforce the laws of war, can be prosecuted for war crimes.

The President must stop tampering with American courts and juries. His continued harassment and meddling in the judicial branch sends a message to foreign war crimes prosecutors that American courts are not independent, as required by the Geneva Conventions.

Geneva requires POWs to have access to judicial procedures as those of similarly situated combatants, in this case American military personnel. The President must explain why he is tampering with American military courts in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Regardless the inclination of Congress to face this illegal activity, the NYT is implicitly raising the bar: Political prosecutions are not domestic issues of impeachment, but violations of the laws of war.

Perhaps if the weather is favorable, Members of Congress might review
these Geneva requirements to investigate these subsequent
Presidentially-directed war crimes. Inaction could be a subsequent war crimes charge agaisnt Members of Congress.