OPINION
Destroying the Rule of Law to Get Trump
Laura Hollis | Dec 21, 2023
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Robert Bolt's prize-winning play "A Man for All Seasons" takes place in 16th-century England during the reign of King Henry VIII. Chancellor Sir Thomas More, a devout Catholic and the country's highest-ranking lawyer, opposes the king's decision to break with the Roman Catholic Church, which had refused Henry's request to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine (who had not borne him and son and heir), so that Henry could marry his mistress, Anne Boleyn.
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What is being done to Donald Trump is part of the same pattern.
In "A Man for All Seasons," Cardinal Wolsey tells Thomas More that it is his duty to his country to compromise his principles. More counters, "When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties ... they lead their country by a short route to chaos."
In other words, using bad means to achieve allegedly beneficial ends was no excuse for corruption 500 years ago.
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Nor is it today. Thomas More's words predict our future. If the gatekeepers of America's legal system succeed in their efforts to "cut down all the laws" of this country to get to their "devil," all of us will pay a terrible price.____________
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