Shadow Docket

Democracy In The Darkness

I can no longer teach with confidence or a straight face that in America no one is above the law, or, that the Rule of Law will prevail at the highest levels of our justice system. Ultimately, more than the price of gas, more than our withdrawal from a responsible world order, more than its stupid and intentional cruelty, this will be the fatal legacy of this Administration, MAGA, and Mitch McConnell. My greatest fear is that my students, most of whom have known little else but a Trump presidency during their formative and adult years, assume this is normal. My job is to ensure they don’t.