The Roman Emperor Caligula wrote the law in small writing high up in a corner of a public building so that no one could read what the law was. If no one knew the law, the emperor had a freer hand in saying who had violated it. It was a clever and naked power grab.
The U.S. Department of Justice—with an assist from Congress—is taking a page from Caligula.
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