The State of the Union: Is Rule of Law in Peril or Is it No More? | Accuracy.OrgCHRIS HEDGES, [email] Hedges just wrote the piece ” The NDAA and the Death of the Democratic State,” which states: “On Wednesday a few hundred activists crowded into the courtroom of the Second Circuit, the spillover room with its faulty audio feed and dearth of chairs, and Foley Square outside the Thurgood Marshall U.S.