Threats to the rule of law in America are growing by the day | Opinion
By The News Tribune
March 18, 2026 | Robert H. Henry and Sterling Knoche | The News Tribune
Justice Potter Stewart famously observed that although pornography is sometimes difficult to define, “I know it when I see it.” The rule of law can also be abstract, but most Americans know the rule of law when they see it.
More precisely, they know it when they don’t see it. And as of late, they have not seen it.
Shaped by living under the whims of an oppressive monarch, our Constitution’s Framer John Adams, the feisty country lawyer who molded the American republic, designed our Country to be “a government of laws, and not men.” . . .