As chairman of the ABA committee, the longtime New York election and campaign law attorney will focus on preservation of the rule of law, and democratizing elections throughout the country.

As chairman of the ABA committee, the longtime New York election and campaign law attorney will focus on preservation of the rule of law, and democratizing elections throughout the country.

Readers are all too familiar with how the attacks on judicial independence and the rule of law by the current president threaten the very fabric of American society—his unlawful arrest and deportation crusade; his attempt to unconstitutionally re-write election laws and the Fourteenth Amendment’s provision of birthright citizenship; his failure to abide by court orders; and so on. All of this was presaged by his attempted upending of our peaceful succession of power, which underscored his rejection of constitutional norms and the rule of law.