Comments
THE VIEW FROM HERE - While the Rule of Law is a vital archetype in Western Civilization, both extremes in America are working hard to hammer the nail into its coffin. The Republican’s attack on the Rule of Law and the Democrats’ attack are not the same. Of the two, Dems’ Woke DEI is the more fatal, but the GOP’s menace is more immediate.
Rule of Law vs. Ruled by Law
People habitually confuse the Rule of Law with its opposite, Ruled by Law.
1) Rule of Law: The archetype in the Declaration of Independence holds that law is supreme and binds everyone equally, including kings, presidents, and prime ministers. In order to be legitimate, a government must protect individual inalienable rights. See Western Civilization Archetypes
2) Ruled by Law:
Under the Republicans’ expansive interpretation of the Unitary Executive Theory, the law no longer protects the individual, but rather, the legal system becomes a tool of political control over the individual. Laws fluctuate to target political enemies and to enhance the President’s power, placing his actions above the law. The United States Supreme Court in Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024), is abandoning the Rule of Law in favor of Ruled by Law so that Trump has absolute immunity to violate criminal law to carry out his core constitutional duties. The US is the only western nation which grants absolute immunity. The three other countries are Muslim states: Brunei, Saudi Arabia, Oman.
Trump is already breaking criminal law to attack people he dislikes. It boggles the mind how millions of Americans are silent while Trump turns federal prosecutors into persecutors. Trump’s U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro is persecuting former Olympic canoeist David Hearn for touching the floating paint strip in the reflecting pool. Hearn’s grabbing the paint strip broke no law. Because Trump uses the judiciary to harm people who displease him, Jeanine Pirro changes the facts by falsely claiming Hearn had ripped up the paint strip, costing the government over $1,000.00. 18 U.S.C. § 242 makes it a federal crime for Pirro to present false evidence and for Trump to order her, but he has absolute immunity and he can pardon her.
While Chief Justice Roberts and the ilk of Senate Majority Leader John Thune work daily to subvert the Rule of Law, they have yet to enunciate a philosophy contrary to the Declaration of Independence. They seek to establish a tyranny under the guise of the Unitary Executive Theory, where the Constitutional balance of power between the President, Congress, and the Judiciary are shifted to the President. That was the purpose of the Supreme Court’s June 29, 2026, decision - Trump v. Slaughter, 598 U.S. ___ (2026), which authorizes the President to fire the heads of independent federal agencies at will. When Congress enacted the laws, it often said that agency heads could be fire only “for cause.” This provision was to prevent a President from changing the entire purpose of an agency by appointing someone who would trash its mandated purpose and turn everything topsy turvy in order to satisfy the President’s agenda. When Trump can make a congressional enactment null and void, the Rule of Law gives way to the whim of the President. Honoring Congress’ mandating that the head of an agency may not be removed except for cause was crucial to the separation of power between Congress and the President. See Humphrey’s Executor v. United States is 295 U.S. 602 (1935). When the President disregards an unambiguous Congressional provision, he not only usurps that specific power, but he may then appoint a new head who destroys the agency altogether. Except for the Federal Reserve, the only congressionally created agencies which retain the force of law are those which please the President.
Wokeism’s Destruction of the Rule of Law
While GOP’s Unitary Executive Theory’s goal is to destroy the US Constitution’s checks and balances on the President’s power so that he become a dictator, the Dem Woke DEI (Identity Politics) is far more lethal threat as it totally repudiates our core values of individual inalienable rights where the government’s purpose is to safeguard those rights. Instead, Wokeism change’s our society’s approach to morality. Right and wrong, moral vs immoral are no longer determined by assessing the individual’s actions, but rather by looking at the status of the person doing the dead.
Pelosi’s Identity Politics (Wokeism) divides the world into two categories: The Oppressors (Whites and Jews) and the Oppressed (all minorities). When a killing occurs, Wokeism does not assess the action but looks at the status of the perpetrator vis a vis the dead person. When a person assigned to the Oppressor category kills a person who is classified as Oppressed, the killing is murder. End of inquiry. There is no right of self-defense since individual rights do not exist. If, however, the killer is an Oppressed person, the killing becomes an act of freedom fighter and the killing is a sign of virtue. Dr. Jonas Salk, who invented the polio vaccine and who refused to patent it to make money himself so that vaccine could be produced cheaply and distributed as widely as possible, is an Oppressor because he is a Jew. Hamas who slaughters innocent men, women and children are heralded as freedom fighters because Wokeism classified Hamas as Oppressed.
A corollary of this Oppressed vs Oppressed dichotomy is that actions of self-defense by Jews are genocide. The IDF’s evacuating Gazan children with deadly genetic diseases for treatment Europe are intentionally accused of starving Gazan children. When the mainstream media could not find any Gazan children who were starving, it used photos of Muslim children in Syria which were being starved to death and gassed by Bashar al-Assad in the Syria civil war as proof that the Jews were starving Gazans. American Wokers accuse Israel of being an apartheid state like South Africa despite the fact that all Israelis has full civil rights. Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman bases her claim that Israel is an apartheid state on her experience in India; she’s never been to Israel! Wokers show no care that their lies about Jews are causing Jews in America to be attacked and murdered. Why? Jews are labeled as Oppressors, and thus, any and all attacks on Jews is a moral duty. That is the meaning of “Globalize the Intifada.” It is not a transitory meme, but rather it’s the core mass murder objective of the Islamists.
(Richard Lee Abrams is a former Los Angeles-based attorney, an author, and political commentator. A long-time contributor to CityWatchLA, he is known for his incisive critiques of City Hall and judicial corruption, as well as his analysis of political and constitutional issues. Abrams blends legal insight with historical and philosophical depth to challenge conventional narratives. A passionate defender of civic integrity and transparency, he aims to expose misuse of power and advocate for systemic reform in local government. You may email him at [email protected])
