New Mexico governor deliberately violates Constitution

[hollodero]

(09-15-2023, 11:38 AM)Dill Wrote: No.  Rule of law is certainly about maintaining laws, but the principle did not evolve to reduce some general "criminality"; and that's not the metric for rule of law.  It evolved to control arbitrary rule. 

If an authoritarian ruler were voted into office, abrogated the US Constitution, 

but "decreased criminality" with an expanded police force, that increase in "order"

would not mean the US was finally living under rule of law.  It would mean the opposite.


That's why there is indeed a "substantive difference" between law and order and RULE of LAW.

Conflating the two can have negative consequences for the preservation of rule of law, especially during a time when
so many seem to have difficulty distinguishing authoritarian from non-authoritarian rule. 

So what is your opinion on a law banning retail staff from stopping thievery?