Zoe Lofgren: “I'll express some disappointment that progress that I expected to have been made by now has not yet been made.”

Here is a paragraph that is important and really places the question before us succinctly: ``In the regime posited by the Pro Codes Act, if citizens, or advocates, or journalists, or business operators, or lawmakers, or even judges wanted…

Now, Ambassador Eisen, can you please talk about these increased threats to public officials as well as distrust in the system, how harmful both of those could be to our country's independent judiciary and really our democracy?

I just note that when the standards setting organization sued Public.Resource.Org, the D.C. Circuit Court said this in ruling for freedom of the law: ``Once a standard is incorporated by reference into the law, it effectively becomes part…

Can democracy survive if the rule of law is eroded?