Amicus: A Law Review

Reflecting, first, on the Rule of Law overseas—including the abiding
tradition of the United Kingdom to support and, at least in part, serve under
a monarch (as witnessed in the coronation of King Charles III), long rejected
by our nation’s founding fathers in favor of what was, 234 years ago, a
completely novel form of checks and balances among three discrete
branches of a national government (including a most non-royal President).
Commenting, too, on the unrelated but equally compelling accounts of Rule
of Law challenges in Pakistan, as a former Prime Minister is arrested and
then released at the direction of the country’s Supreme Court—even as the
incumbent Prime Minister wrestles with violent public protests nationwide.
Back at home, the dramatic return to the traditional, pre-pandemic
processing of foreign nationals along our southwest border, seeking asylum
from the nations of their origin—and the justice-invoking challenges
attendant upon that for our beleaguered immigration courts and judges.
Next, some updated reporting on one of the principal topics of two weeks
ago—namely, the challenges to our national health and well-being posed by
our gun culture and violent uses of firearms in virtually every area of our
lives (including a recent decision by a federal judge invalidating legislated
restrictions on age requirements for gun purchasers). In connection with the
January 6 insurrection, two important, justice-related stories—the first in
anticipation of the late May sentencing of former Oath Keepers leader
Stewart Rhodes upon his conviction for seditious conspiracy, and the second
(right here in Wisconsin) from the directive of a Dane County Circuit Judge,
compelling the Wisconsin Election Commission to vote again (absent the
involvement of one member) on whether to penalize the State’s fake electors
for their fraudulent and illegal conduct in attempting to overturn the
legitimate Electoral College counting in the 2020 Presidential election.
Among the many other, Rule of Law stories from the week, another
discussion of the defamation and assault trial in which reporter-commentator
E. Jean Carroll sought damages against the former President, along with the
issuance of criminal charges against New York representative George Santos
for a combination of banking-financial, campaign-related, and false
statements behaviors. Finally, in anticipation of the series of timely
broadcasts just ahead, a revisiting of the overwhelming ethical challenges

now before our Supreme Court—even as it decides important cases (among
them, the contemporary meaning of our Constitution’s commerce clause in
application to pork-selling mandates imposed by the State of California).