Rule of law? Hawley’s response to Trump indictment shows he’s only for it sometimes

On Nov. 1 and then again on Nov. 5 in 2018, just ahead of that year’s Nov. 6 Election Day, Donald Trump visited Missouri to campaign for Josh Hawley, whose U.S. Senate race against the incumbent Democrat, Sen. Claire McCaskill, was expected to be close. In Cape Girardeau on Nov. 5, at Trump’s last campaign stop of the midterms, Hawley compared McCaskill to that monster Hillary Clinton, knowing that the crowd would in response erupt in the gleeful chant that Trump had successfully run on: “Lock her up!” When they complied, right on cue, Hawley beamed. Now though, the senator seems to have chang...