above the law

"He believes that members of all those groups are arrogant, and that they put themselves above the law."

“Clearly, they thought they were above the law. They thought we would never strike,” said union head David Green in a statement.

“No one individual, no matter how prominent or wealthy, is above the law. Anything less than decisive, immediate, and collective action risks America becoming a bystander to the surrender to modern oligarchy — public power in private hands,” the memo concludes.

For the organization's leaders, the president's reluctance to bring Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. is a power move to show the Trump administration believes itself to be above the law.

In a recent post on his Truth Social platform, Trump declared himself above the law like some type of Caesar or Napoleon.