Opinion: 'A nation of constitutional law, not martial law'

“Ours is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law.”

Those words of rebuke from U.S. Federal District Judge Karin Immergut, to President Donald Trump, who nominated her to the federal bench, might seem like an unnecessary reminder to most Americans raised in a civics tradition that teaches the supremacy of the Constitution and the president’s subordination to it. But adherence to the supreme law of the land is of little importance to Trump when it represents an impediment to his effort to transform the presidency and the nation in his image.