Kristi Noem believes the law doesn’t apply to her. Last week, the Justice Department said in a court filing that Noem was fully aware of a judge’s order blocking the highly questionable mass-deportation of migrants to El Salvador, but chose to ignore it and didn’t order the planes to turn around.
Without wanting to get all Civics 101, the rule of law and respecting the decisions of the judiciary are a crucial part of the system of checks and balances that the Founding Fathers laid down, and why the United States flourished where so many tin-pot republics floundered.
