I'm not talking like the laws of physics, yes those exist in nature. I'm talking about manmade laws.
Laws are a social construct! They mean nothing unless someone enforces them!
In the book Lord of the Flies, when the kids are on a desert island with no adults, there's some inertia initially where they still behave as if adults are watching. Until it dawns on them that nobody is there to enforce the rules and they can do whatever the fuck they want, then there's chaos.
People still behave as if the law is just some natural force that exists regardless of enforcement. No matter how many times they see the law broken without consequences. No matter how many times cops ignore crimes or prosecutors drop cases they shouldn't or judges make a bad ruling, some people still have this blind faith that when something illegal happens, it will be punished. Or some even seem to think people in power physically can't break the law.
I had a fight with someone cause they were posting some shit about how ICE "can't" enter houses without a warrant and I replied with the meme about how robbers can't legally take your stuff without your consent. Sorry but ICE can and do do things the law says they "can't".
And sorry, but Trump can and probably will interfere with elections and stay in office for as long as he lives and invade other countries and commit full on genocide if nobody stops him.
And people act like it's an inevitability that Trump and the other fascists will face nuremberg trials. Sorry but it's not an inevitability. The nuremberg trials happened when other countries successfully invaded Germany and put an end to the regime. It's not going to happen automatically. It's only going to happen if there's revolution or war. Maybe a newly elected government will prosecute these clowns, but I doubt it.
The law is made up. It doesn't exist in nature. The only thing protecting your rights is a social contract. It is not inevitable that justice will be served. This isn't just in the Untied States. All over the world, laws are enforced inconsistently. Nothing guarantees the law will work as it is supposed to.
Laws of physics don't exist either. What we have are our descriptions of the organized ways in which things seem to work based on our observation and experiment. But a hard coded rule doesn't exist anywhere, which is why we adjust our laws sometimes when we find new behavior through different or better measurements.
To get to your point, laws and rights are agreements within a society that things should be a certain way, and can be changed by the public or those who govern them, positively or negatively. As George Carlin said, you don't have rights, you have privileges. And those can be taken away, even the ones claimed as given by a creator. That's just core agreements, and even they aren't perfectly adhered to, especially if most people aren't paying attention.