Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The Trump administration doesn’t merely flout international law; it treats the very idea of a rules-based legal order as a weakness to be mocked, violated, and destroyed. Overseas, that contempt takes the form of unrestrained military force that threatens to unravel the post–World War II international system that the United States itself built. At home, the same impulse can be seen in a growing willingness to discard legal limits on state violence, recasting unlawful force as strength and accountability...