A good and timely article to which I would only add that it is by responding with facts, reason, conviction, steadfastness and, when necessary, courage in such challenging times as these that civil society and the legal community sustain our legal institutions and the rule of law when under challenge by a rise of the threat of the rule of powerful men and crowd.

On a happier note, by their steadfast efforts civil society and the legal profession give leadership and heart to our politicians and political institutions to turn back the nihilist, egocentric and authoritarian forces that, left unchecked over time, would subvert our liberal democratic society.  In retrospect, history often looks back at the success of such opposition to apprehended chaos and tyrany as marking significant advances of our legal and political institutions and of the concept and foundation of liberal democracy.