This article perfectly frames how and why freedoms are ripped from us by "procedural" means. How the Constitution has been nullified by "procedure", and how the viewpoint that morality, laws, rules and common decency are just there to be circumvented by "procedural hacking". Why do lawyers spring to mind? They're the enforcers of "procedure", not laws.

This is the 800lb gorilla in the room that no one sees. Kafka saw it, though few people saw the monster his logic created. It's not a joke.

" When we are analyzing its practices, we often use imbecilic, meaningless categories like “legal/illegal”. Let me introduce much better term – “procedural”.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2022/03/26/a-dozen-russian-troops-refuse-to-go-to-ukraine-and-show-us-that-russias-government-looks-a-lot-like-ours-n541245