In their March 22 op-ed, the chair of the state bar's Board of Trustees, Ruben Duran, and its executive director, Leah Wilson, opine that "moral authority of a society built on the rule of law lies in the fundamental belief that it applies equally to all." True enough, but Duran and Wilson run a government agency, not a society. The moral authority of government lies in its observation of society's norms and its just enactment of the rule of law. Belief alone doesn't cut it.