["\nAbstract\nThe rule of law is a foundation of the liberal state. The US ‘War on Terror’ under Presidents Bush and Obama threatened and violated the rule of law in multiple ways. This article surveys those challenges and analyses how US institutions responded in order to assess the capacity of the legal system to resist political pressure in moments of crisis.\n", "Journal of Law and Society, Volume 47, Issue S1, Page S14-S29, October 2020. "]