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Topic: rule of law

Rachel Cohen, a third-year law associate who resigned over a deal she says her high-powered law firm Skadden Law reached with the Trump administration, speaks during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Building on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

The rule of law is on the ropes

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Pam Bondi, former Florida Attorney General, speaks during a press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump will target all Americans' rights

Chauncey DeVega
A Federal agent is photographed as ICE conduct raids on a local tire shop business in Colony Ridge on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

The War on Terror comes home

Karen J. Greenberg - TomDispatch.com
Rachel Maddow attends Variety & Rolling Stone Truth Seekers Summit at Second on August 02, 2023 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

Maddow warns GOP undermines rule of law

Gabriella Ferrigine
Donald Trump behind bars (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Day of reckoning" is coming for Trump

Chauncey DeVega
Julian Assange (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

The reality of the war against Wikileaks

Chris Hedges
Richard Painter (Getty Images)

Former WH lawyer: Trump wants full power

Chauncey DeVega
Bill Barr, Donald Trump and Roger Stone (AP Photo/Salon)

Trump, the truth, the law and a pandemic

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's chaos targets rule of law

Bob Hennelly
(AP/Evan Vucci)

On the cusp of the Fourth Reich

Chauncey DeVega
(Getty/Win McNamee/giftlegacy/Salon)

Trump’s assault on the rule of law

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
(AP/Evan Vucci/Salon)

Trump's eroding American democracy

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
Donald Trump; Eleanor Roosevelt (AP/Salon)

Trump vs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Paul Rosenberg
(Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Trump rips apart Justice Department

Terry H. Schwadron
A U.S. Border Patrol spotlight shines on a terrified mother and son from Honduras as they are found in the dark near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas. (Getty/John Moore)

Our border crisis and the rule of law

Jacob T. Levy
Antifa members (Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Trump seeks to criminalize "antifa"

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Is Donald Trump above the law?

Chauncey DeVega
James Madison; Robert Mueller; Plato (Getty/Wikimedia/Shutterstock/Salon)

Trump, Mueller and the "rule of law"

Andrew O'Hehir
(Getty/Andrew Harrer)

Trump's judicial blitz continues

Arn Pearson
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump pardon himself?

Austin Sarat - The Conversation
(AP/Evan Vucci)

impeach?

Rachel E. Bowen - The Conversation
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Bad prosecutors vs. America

Heather Digby Parton
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