Since when are laws downgraded to rules?
Actually, the headline doesn’t quite capture the article.
Basically it describes why Hillary might deserve to be facing possible criminal charges and lays out a case for why she is unfit to be President, though it stops just short of saying that.
That IS the message, though. The protective media bubble around her is gone, and that would seem to mean that Democrats have to have decided to stop supporting Hillary and go with someone else.
One can’t imagine that the Democratic editors at USA Today would write such a politically damning piece if they had any thought that Hillary would be on the ballot in November.