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I get the gist of what you're saying, but the "law" has nothing to with morals, ethics, or righteousness and never has. So the "law" will be brought down on anyone who questions the authority of the ones with the most power, and that includes those who also have power, just not as much. They have already threatened Ilhan Omar and Zohran Mamdani with risk of deportation. The House refuses to seat Adelita Grijalva. Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh has been slapped with felony charges. The "law" is also coming after people who enabled all this chicanery as well, including James Comey and Merrick Garland. The pardons that Biden wrote to protect the people in his administration from the incoming Trump administration have been struck as null and void by the Republican apparatus, and charges are likely coming for anyone and everyone in Biden's orbit, up to and including Biden himself, no matter the Supreme Court ruling that effectively said "if the President does it, it's not a crime." They'll find a way to make anything Biden did a crime, despite that.
Your post also ignores how much more the wealthy private sector benefactors of these political puppets gain by legalizing their corruption through lobbying and bribery. The kind of things they should be in jail for are perverted because their wealth, as you pointed out, allows them to buy out the fear of prosecution from the law. I think it's unfair to say all those with political power are immune to prosecution when it's clear they're happy to go after people like Comey and Garland. I would say those people who aren't in the political organizations but are rather pulling the strings have even more safety than the politicians. The "law" isn't ever going to materially come down on Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Steve Huffman, Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel and so on. That's because their wealth bought their way out of that by legalizing the worst of what they do. They have used their wealth to leverage control over a badly designed political system and prevent healthy changes to the system at every step of the way for nearly the entire existence of the USA.
Anyway, I just think your ire should be pointed a little less at a badly designed political system which has been gamed by the wealthy, and instead at the wealthy so willing to game it because they don't give one hot damn about the future of the nation or it's citizens. They are all ready to skip the country and go somewhere else when the house of cards falls, leaving us here to suffer after they've strip-mined it all. In that moment, many politicians will end up like Gaddafi, literally torn limb from limb by their former constituents, no longer protected by the "law." The wealthy who enabled them, however, will be long gone in their New Zealand bunkers.