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Standing Up for the Rule of Law

Plus, why the swiftboating of Gov. Walz will fail.

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DENNIS AFTERGUT: Standing Up for the Rule of Law

SOMETIMES POLITICAL TRENDS are hit-you-over-the-head obvious. Other times, you have to stand back and squint to detect the pattern. If you look at a handful of seemingly disparate events across the country from the last few weeks, you will see something promising for our future: defenders of the rule of law working against Trumpist attempts to erode it.

First up, a story from the American Bar Association, that once-stodgy mainstay of the lawyering profession. On August 2, the ABA’s bipartisan Task Force on Democracy sounded a call to arms to lawyers to get active defending the rule of law.

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