By William Nettles and Reuben Guttman
There is a misconception among many that democracy and freedom are synonymous and that freedom, in turn, equates to the right to do and say anything.
The White House recently issued an Executive Order and a Memorandum setting a course toward deregulation; this misconception may explain why initiation of plans for the scrapping of rules – actually promulgated pursuant to laws passed by Congress — may seem as American as the Boston Tea Party. Yet, merely having the optics of consistency with American values does not mean that the President’s plans are – in truth – consistent with our sacred rule of law.
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