Get thee hence to Jack Balkin's salt mine of legal wisdom: Balkinzation and read up on the latest in American democratic republic fail. From there direct yourself to the provided link and read this post at Lawfare on the same topic.
Hint: these are about your rights to not be disappeared in the middle of the night by government security forces... rights that are quickly evaporating in our dangerously dysfunctional political climate.
mojo sends