alt Hacker News> only remaining national holy religion, the rule of law
Uhm... Really? Is that present tense?
If rule-of-law was a national holy religion, the last 10 years of US politics would have played out very very differently.
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dns_snek • 01/22/2025
Like any religion, the rules usually don't apply to the leaders, only the followers.
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> the last 10 years of US politics
Ten? Oh man. Have you read about the FALN commutation? Iran-Contra? Watergate? The 1960 presidential election? Roosevelt (both of them)? Wilson? Lincoln? Those are just a very few of the instances of disrespect for the rule of law that come to mind immediately.