run roughshod over

Armed with a grant of immunity from the Supreme Court, he would run roughshod over the rule of law.

For half a century, the department has been plagued by allegations about tattooed groups of deputies who run roughshod over certain sheriff’s stations and promote a culture of violence.

All the while, a far-right supermajority would run roughshod over North Carolinians’ rights and continually interfere in elections to benefit Republicans.

And then they run roughshod over that and vote and with a partisan split.

In Lochner, the court was using this idea of substantive liberty rights to protect inequality, basically to protect the ability of employers to run roughshod over their employees, to maintain dominant power relations.