The United States, we are often told, is a nation bound by the rule of law. We hear that less and less as it becomes more and more risible but I guess it still officially is, unless you’re the president, or you’re operating an armed drone on behalf of the president, or torturing someone on behalf of the president, or providing legal justification for someone to torture someone on behalf of the president, or so on. Maybe you could even massacre a village on behalf of the president. Legally, that is; not that it hasn’t been done.

Those pesky Nuremberg precedents? Off with their heads!

Via IOZ, we learn that the Obama administration now claims the right to prosecute attorneys who have the temerity to provide legal counsel to anyone or any group that this administration, and presumably future administrations, and maybe past ones as well, given how solicitous this administration has been of that one’s feelings, says are terrorists.

In other words, the law is now against the law. Because the president says so. Hope and fucking change, indeed.

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