Daily World Dispatch - 'We are a country based on the rule of law'

By Maher Mughrabi
Updated February 9 2017 - 1:09pm, first published 10:38am

Those people who believe in the superiority of Western or European or Anglo-Saxon or "white" civilisation often list as one of its signal achievements the establishment of the rule of law. It was to that compelling argument that Washington state's attorney-general, Bob Ferguson, referred when a Seattle judge suspended US President Donald Trump's immigration ban: "We are a nation of laws. Not even the President can violate the Constitution."

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