Catherine Morris<p>‘Authoritarian governments generally try to bolster their legitimacy by using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laws</span></a>, decrees, & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>court</span></a> hearings to justify their actions,…creating, twisting, interpreting, or manipulating laws…to punish resistance. In this regard, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration is operating like other authoritarian gov’ts… Respect for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ruleoflaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ruleoflaw</span></a> has been replaced by contemptuous propaganda that judges who uphold the law are “corrupt” & lawyers who oppose his policies are “scum.”’ | SLaw <a href="https://www.slaw.ca/2025/03/25/the-us-as-an-authoritarian-state-danger-to-the-global-rule-of-law/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">slaw.ca/2025/03/25/the-us-as-a</span><span class="invisible">n-authoritarian-state-danger-to-the-global-rule-of-law/</span></a> /2</p>