A Riddle For Lawmakers
If you can solve this riddle, you’ll know you can’t just stand by. Who am I?
Today’s “populists,”—both right and left—appear to believe that virtually anything the U.S. federal government does is an oppression of individual liberty, private rights and local control of resources and norms. Setting aside adolescent posturing—like refusing to wear face masks at the height of a national pandemic, or the will to anarchy generated by racist fears—there …
“Lawfare” is a word few Americans understand, but people in many other countries have bitter experience with the pathology. The word means waging war on democracy by perverting the law into a weapon to against your political opponents.