If not for the Justice Department guidelines saying that you can’t indict a sitting president, there is a good chance that Donald Trump would be facing trial right now.

The Mueller report documented numerous instances of the Trump campaign working in “cooperation” with Russian government officials and doing so for the “deceitful” purpose of undermining American democracy. The report also laid out 11 instances of potential obstruction of justice.

Despite having not actually looked at all the underlying evidence himself, Attorney General William Barr decided to clear the president. However, more than 800 former federal prosecutors who worked in every Democratic and Republican administration going back to Eisenhower disagreed. They wrote, “Each of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report would, in the case of any other person ... result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice.”

Republicans who clutch their pearls and get the vapors over the word “socialism” see no problem with accepting Russian interference in our elections. They have no problem with the Trump administration blocking or denying every single subpoena request from the House, blocking their ability to conduct their constitutional obligation of oversight.

The rule of law no longer matters to Republicans.