Catherine Morris<p>My new column:</p><p>The US as an Authoritarian State: Danger to the Global Rule of Law</p><p>“Checks & balances among the three US branches of government are in tatters… It is unclear whether the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> legal system can withstand the Trump administration’s increasingly brazen threats against <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/judges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>judges</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lawyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawyers</span></a>.” | SLaw: Canada’s Online Legal Magazine <a href="https://www.slaw.ca/2025/03/25/the-us-as-an-authoritarian-state-danger-to-the-global-rule-of-law/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">slaw.ca/2025/03/25/the-us-as-a</span><span class="invisible">n-authoritarian-state-danger-to-the-global-rule-of-law/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internationallaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internationallaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ruleoflaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ruleoflaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lawfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawfedi</span></a> /1</p>