Late last week, a top FBI lawyer named James Baker was reassigned. The Washington Post said it was part of FBI Director Christopher Wray’s effort to assemble his own team of senior advisers.

But there’s probably more to it. The FBI has been accused — correctly, I believe — of partisanship, especially when it came to handling the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

As I explained in an October 2016 column, Baker was one of three people who “unanimously” decided not to prosecute Clinton. Then-FBI head James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were the other two at the meeting when the decision was made.

Baker was reassigned shortly after McCabe testified in private before the House Intelligence Committee, which is looking into Clinton’s mishandling of her emails. There have also been reports that Baker is being looked at as the source of leaks to the press.

I said a long time ago and repeated often that the Democrats should back off their insistence that the events leading up to the 2016 election should be investigated.

Investigators might get President Trump on something. But Democrats are also likely to get tangled up in all this — as seems to now be happening.

I’ll say it again: Hillary Clinton should have secured a pardon before President Barack Obama left the White House. And, in fact, I’m told by a good source that someone did gently broach that subject on her behalf.