If it means "Involves our nation's most powerful law enforcement and intelligence agencies in reckless political conduct that undermines our system of elections and the orderly transfer of power," then yes, the Trump-Russia investigation does endanger the rule of law.
The first is that the Justice Department used the Logan Act, which bars private Americans from conducting foreign policy, as a pretense to pursue an investigation against the Trump team.
Four days into the Trump administration, Sally Yates, the Obama holdover leading the Justice Department, sent agents to the White House to question Flynn, ostensibly on the suspicion that he might have violated the Logan Act.
The second incident that suggests the Trump investigation threatens the rule of law is the FBI's use of the Trump dossier - a Clinton campaign opposition research product - as a part of its counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.
To compile the dossier, a Democratic law firm hired the opposition research group Fusion GPS, which hired a former British spy named Christopher Steele, who paid a number of Russian "Collectors," who then talked to other Russians, who provided gossip about Trump.
With the Logan Act, Obama holdovers used a dead law as a pretense to push the Trump investigation.
It is reasonable to say the Trump-Russia investigation endangers the rule of law.
https://townhall.com/columnists/byronyork/2018/04/04/on-the-trumprussia-investigation-and-the-rule-of-law-n2467424
The first is that the Justice Department used the Logan Act, which bars private Americans from conducting foreign policy, as a pretense to pursue an investigation against the Trump team.
Four days into the Trump administration, Sally Yates, the Obama holdover leading the Justice Department, sent agents to the White House to question Flynn, ostensibly on the suspicion that he might have violated the Logan Act.
The second incident that suggests the Trump investigation threatens the rule of law is the FBI's use of the Trump dossier - a Clinton campaign opposition research product - as a part of its counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.
To compile the dossier, a Democratic law firm hired the opposition research group Fusion GPS, which hired a former British spy named Christopher Steele, who paid a number of Russian "Collectors," who then talked to other Russians, who provided gossip about Trump.
With the Logan Act, Obama holdovers used a dead law as a pretense to push the Trump investigation.
It is reasonable to say the Trump-Russia investigation endangers the rule of law.
https://townhall.com/columnists/byronyork/2018/04/04/on-the-trumprussia-investigation-and-the-rule-of-law-n2467424
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