As I have mentioned several times over the past couple of years, insistence on the Rule of Law and adherence to due process through independent judiciary and law enforcement are the last lines of defence between civil society and total anarchy.
Corporatocracy and self-enriching political leaders are the enemies within. After two years of increasingly self-serving, autocratic behaviours from the Trump administration, finally conservative legal groups are speaking out publically. This is an essential development. See Conservative Lawyers say Trump has undermined The Rule of Law:
“…a dozen prominent conservative lawyers have joined together to sound a note of caution. They are urging their fellow conservatives to speak up about what they say are the Trump administration’s betrayals of bedrock legal norms.
‘Conservative lawyers are not doing enough to protect constitutional principles that are being undermined by the statements and actions of this president,’ said John B. Bellinger III, a top State Department and White House lawyer under President George W. Bush.’
…’We believe in the rule of law, the power of truth, the independence of the criminal justice system, the imperative of individual rights and the necessity of civil discourse. We believe these principles apply regardless of the party or persons in power.’
…’There’s a perception out there that conservative lawyers have essentially sold their souls for judges and regulatory reform,” [George T. Conway III] said. ‘We just want to be a voice speaking out, and to encourage others to speak out’.
…’It’s important that people from across the political spectrum speak out about the country’s commitment to the rule of law and the core values underlying it — that the criminal justice system should be nonpartisan and independent, that a free press and public criticism should be encouraged and not attacked,” [Peter D. Keisler, a former acting attorney general in the Bush administration] said. “These are values that might once have been thought so basic and universally accepted that they didn’t need defending, but that’s no longer clearly the case.’
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