When President Trump vows, “I am your justice… I am your retribution,” it isn’t mere rhetoric — it’s a declaration of intent. The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1935 Berger ruling warned against exactly this: justice turned into vengeance. A nation that allows power, not principle, to decide who is punished and who is spared ceases to be a democracy governed by law, writes Neal O’Donnell of Cleveland in a letter to the editor.Read More
