American democracy, the Constitution and the rule of law are the righteous causes of our times, and the nation’s legal profession is obligated to support them.
But with the acquiescence of the larger conservative legal movement, these pillars of our system of governance are increasingly in peril.
The dangers will only grow should Donald Trump be returned to the White House next November.
He would stock his administration with partisan loyalists committed to fast-tracking his agenda and sidestepping — if not circumventing altogether — existing laws and long-established legal norms.
The Federalist Society, long the standard-bearer for the conservative legal movement, has failed to respond in this period of crisis.
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