TONY LEON: While US stays on top, the bucking horse of the rule of law throws SA off
As Trump has his comeuppance, Ramaphosa fails to honour his pledge that riot instigators will be prosecuted
23 August 2023 - 05:00
Famed 19th-century British constitutional scholar AV Dicey is credited with popularising the concept “the rule of law”. Among its core tenets is that no person is above the law or beyond its reach. Subsequent scholarly warnings that the rule of law is an “unruly horse” have received some recent, alarming updates here and beyond these shores.
If the US and its settled constitutional order was nearly unhorsed because of the needs and demands of one man in January 2021 — then president Donald J Trump — a raft of hands were lifted to rein him in. And to reassert the supremacy of the law itself...
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