I am a firm believer that we cannot shape law around worst case scenarios. This is how we legalize torture also, because what happens with the ticking time bomb

I am a firm believer that we cannot shape law around worst case scenarios. This is how we legalize torture also, because what happens with the ticking time bomb? The right answer is under horrible extreme circumstances, leaders will sometimes act outside the law, and these actions can be tacitly ignored by the rest of the political system, or used for impeachment/prosecution if the country disagrees with the actions. What we must not do is imagine worst case hypotheticals in our heads and then unwrite the Constitution, handing absolute legal power over anyone's life and death to one man in the name of protecting ourselves from our nightmares.