and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will continue to do our jobs free from political influence, and we will not back down from defending democracy. attorney general merrick garland facing a republican party hell bent on doing everything it can to push conspiracy theories and attack the rule of law in the wake of donald trump s felony conviction in new york. plus, president biden making bold and controversial moves today on immigration and on his rhetoric towards israel. but we begin tonight with the rule of law. in our democrat, system it is the principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are supposed to be accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated. in a perfect world, the idea is to protect the rights of all people in our society. it hasn t always worked out perfectly, to say the least, in this country s long and difficult history, but that is the idea. donald trump and his maga
election. that was back when justice alito was more known as a conservative justice rather than a scandalous troll leading the country into a dystopian hellscape where women are property and the american flag flies upside down. it s also before the maga parasite infected the republican party, but the signs were there hiding in plain sight. samuel alito didn t like hearing president obama publicly criticize the high court s ruling removing corporate campaign spending limits. he didn t try to hide it. it was a striking moment in american politics. you got to see who alito was and is. it s also about a material change in our politics because obama was right. a narrow majority of the supreme court overturned a century of campaign finance law giving wealthy donors and corporations nearly unlimited ability to influence our elections. the federalist justices had opened up a pandora s box, opening the campaign spending floodgates. according to a university of