{"id":136018,"date":"2025-10-29T15:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/29\/dispatches-from-the-collapse-of-the-rule-of-law\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:17:46","slug":"dispatches-from-the-collapse-of-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/29\/dispatches-from-the-collapse-of-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches From The Collapse Of The Rule Of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up with the slice of the conservative legal movement who have stared into the moral abyss of the Trump administration and recoiled in horror. <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/rule-of-law-conservatives-awkwardly-embrace-resistance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Society for the Rule of Law held its annual summit<\/a> and while many attendees voiced clear-eyed opposition, some continued to grapple with the cognitive dissonance in recognizing that Trump might be the natural and logical consequence of their own long-championed conservative projects. One attendee who has no illusions over the gravity of the threat though was Judge Michael Luttig, who <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/district-judges-fight-to-save-the-rule-of-law-while-doj-and-supreme-court-snicker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">railed against the Supreme Court<\/a> in the legal equivalent of a rousing halftime locker room speech. Also, Cadwalader <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/merger-momentum-builds-at-cadwalader-as-the-firms-woes-deepen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seems increasingly\u00a0at an existential crossroads and looking for a merger partner<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/in-house-counsel-fired-after-racist-rant-goes-viral\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a lawyer loses her job over ballpark rant<\/a> \u2014 and what\u2019s more, her team lost.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/dispatches-from-the-collapse-of-the-rule-of-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dispatches From The Collapse Of The Rule Of Law<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Catching up with the slice of the conservative legal movement who have stared into the moral abyss of the Trump administration and recoiled in horror. <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/rule-of-law-conservatives-awkwardly-embrace-resistance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Society for the Rule of Law held its annual summit<\/a> and while many attendees voiced clear-eyed opposition, some continued to grapple with the cognitive dissonance in recognizing that Trump might be the natural and logical consequence of their own long-championed conservative projects. One attendee who has no illusions over the gravity of the threat though was Judge Michael Luttig, who <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/district-judges-fight-to-save-the-rule-of-law-while-doj-and-supreme-court-snicker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">railed against the Supreme Court<\/a> in the legal equivalent of a rousing halftime locker room speech. Also, Cadwalader <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/merger-momentum-builds-at-cadwalader-as-the-firms-woes-deepen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seems increasingly\u00a0at an existential crossroads and looking for a merger partner<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/in-house-counsel-fired-after-racist-rant-goes-viral\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a lawyer loses her job over ballpark rant<\/a> \u2014 and what\u2019s more, her team lost.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/dispatches-from-the-collapse-of-the-rule-of-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dispatches From The Collapse Of The Rule Of Law<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up with the slice of the conservative legal movement who have stared into the moral abyss of the Trump administration and recoiled in horror. The Society for the Rule of Law held its annual summit and while many attendees voiced clear-eyed opposition, some continued to grapple with the cognitive dissonance in recognizing that Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-1716407117-bVYuQN.jpg?fit=747%2C467&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}