Conservative Republicans Have Formed the Society for the Rule of Law against Trumpism

Another organization has been formed by anti-Trump conservative Republicans against Trumpism. Society for the Rule of Law was organized earlier this month to stand up for the rule of law against threats from Donald Trump and his supporters, and from Trumpism. It is led by a former federal appeals court judge who was a contender for a United States Supreme Court appointment and a former board member of the Federalist Society. The organizers of the Society for the Rule of Law lamented that the legal profession and particularly conservative organizations have failed to defend the rule of law as they have underestimated the degree of the threat or have allowed partisanship or ideology to take precedence over basic legal principles. The new organization hosted the Rule of Law summit last week in Washington, and has established a political arm and chapters on law school campuses. These lawyers have thus joined similar organized efforts or organizations by professional communities, such as defense and intelligence leaders, diplomats, and political consultants in opposing Trump and Trumpism. Trump, who is not conservative and is of poor character, has espoused a mixed set of populist views, namely protectionism, isolationism and nativism, coupled with the practice of dishonesty, disloyalty, corruption, authoritarianism and cruelty. Trump undermined the rule of law and independence of the judiciary while President and threatens even worse violations and erosions of checks and balances were he to return to power.