Do you believe in the idea of the rule of law? If you ask that question just about everyone I know will immediately respond with a definite “yes.” A yes means that everyone, rich or poor, famous or unknown, young or old, in political office or simple citizen, has to play by the same rules and that if those rules are broken you will be arrested by an officer of the law, tried before an impartial judge and jury and if convicted, sentenced to some sort of appropriate punishment. The rule of law is pretty much intact at the city, county and state levels around the U.S.