LIKE ALICE, OUR RULE OF LAW HAS NOW GONE DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
Lewis Carroll’s famous Alice in Wonderland says it best about the status of our nation’s constitutional rule of law. Alice observes things have become “curiouser and curiouser,” and so has the political situation in this country. The president of the United States has been allowed to assume the power of an unrestrained authoritarian who governs by issuing numerous decrees labeled “Executive Orders” and which ignore existing laws, constitutional requirements or needed prior legal approval. These executive orders go unchallenged by…