The outcome will not be decided by a sensational headline or a single dramatic courtroom moment. Instead, the future of the American experiment is being shaped in the slow machinery of the legal system—in the quiet of procedural hearings, in the dense language of obscure filings, and in the technical rulings that rarely make headlines but quietly redraw the boundaries of executive power. Every decision—by investigators weighing whether to follow the evidence fully or succumb to political pressure, and by judges deciding whether to enforce constitutional limits or allow them to bend—becomes a stitch in the fabric of a new precedent. This is the inheritance being laid before future leaders: rules that will either restrain their worst impulses or provide a roadmap for overreach. Continue reading…
