The rule of law is being undermined from within 

In a democracy the rule of law is sacred It is what separates cabinet by the people from executive by power It is the idea that laws not individuals rule us all That even the majority powerful are held accountable That justice is impartial and general operation is a trust not a weapon But in the current era the rule of law in America is under siege Not by violent revolutionaries or foreign adversaries but by those entrusted with the highest offices in the Executive Branch of our own cabinet Over the last several years we ve seen a shift not just in plan but in principle What was once occasional overreach is becoming institutionalized contempt for constitutional constraints The President is ignoring lawful orders from federal judges Law firms are being threatened The Justice Department has been pressured to act as an instrument of political retribution Whistleblowers and inspectors general once considered vital to governing body integrity are now targets for removal Entire departments have been recast as partisan arms of the White House The slow decay of checks and balances is not just happening it s accelerating The consequences reverberate When the presidency treats legal norms as inconveniences governors and agency heads follow suit A society of impunity creeps down the chain of command The message is clear loyalty matters more than law and those who speak out do so at their own threat This erosion is not theoretical It is practical it is visible and it is dangerous It reshapes the machinery of authorities into a tool of consolidation rather than institution And it chips away at populace trust the very fuel a democracy runs on Bulk troubling is how normalized this behavior has become We have learned to expect opacity We have adjusted to a lack of accountability We have become numb to the abuse of power cloaked in procedural language That numbness is how democracies die not with a bang but with a shrug In the modern day I will join other lawyers here in Atlanta and across the country in a collective moment of resistance the national ReaffirmTheOath campaign Together we will publicly recommit to the Constitution not as a symbol but as a solemn promise It may seem like a small gesture but it is in truth a radical act in this situation an insistence that our duty is not to any person but to the people What we need now is not more rhetoric we need resolve Congress must reclaim its constitutional role Federal agencies must be insulated from political manipulation TheThe Department of Justice must be allowed to function free from interference And the American people must demand more from those who govern in their name The Founders did not design a system to run on blind trust They built it to survive bad actors but only if good ones rise to defend it The rule of law cannot enforce itself It relies on us lawyers elected administrators constituents servants citizens to protect it from decay Our moment of reckoning is here The question is no longer whether the rule of law is at jeopardy It is The question is whether we are still willing to fight for it The post The rule of law is being undermined from within appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta