State’s legal minds raise concern about attacks on ‘rule of law’

A rarely discussed legal term is getting its day in the sun.

“The rule of law” is the crazy idea that everyone in a democracy is accountable to the same laws and that everyone is entitled to their day in court (and to be represented by an attorney).

The legal term took top billing in a recent episode of “60 minutes” as well as in letters penned by a group of professors at the University of Nebraska …