The architecture of American justice, long treated as a fixed pillar of democratic life, is being tested in ways not seen in modern memory. The familiar assurance that the rule of law is singular, stable, and immune to individual power now feels unsettled. What many assumed to be permanent is revealing stress fractures that were always present but rarely acknowledged. As a former president—Donald Trump—moves through an unprecedented confrontation with the legal system, the nation is forced into a reckoning it has long postponed: whether its founding principle that no one stands above the law is an enforceable reality or a comforting narrative sustained by habit and hope. Continue reading…
