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Last RT (quoted below): in how many areas of law, now, have conservatives — either in the judiciary or the more openly political branches — shut down enforcement?
For starters, campaign finance … vox.com/mischiefs-of-f…
Consumer financial protection, too: nytimes.com/2019/04/16/mag…
Income taxation—if you’re rich: propublica.org/article/ultraw…
Bribery and anti-corruption laws: newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
White-collar criminal law enforcement, too. propublica.org/article/the-ri…
And, of course—if congressional Democrats go along—high crimes & misdemeanors. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
It all brings into a sort of relief a point @EricLevitz makes in the piece cited above: “commitment to small-r republican values”—like, maybe, enforcing duly-enacted laws—“requires prioritizing the GOP’s disempowerment over the preservation of institutional norms.” 
Here’s probably the first of many I forgot: firearms regulation. Of course. nytimes.com/2018/02/22/us/…
