We don’t entirely understand either.

But a fundamental problem is that branch of government tasked with prosecuting and enforcing those laws is the same branch of government that is flagrantly violating them.

It probably should have been independent, but even the agencies that have historically been independent have seen the executive put undue pressure on to fire their leadership and replace them with loyalists. This has been a long time coming, and there have been a large group which has been put into different powerful leadership positions at the same time who are loyal to the fuhrer.