The Law & Order brand used to pride itself on its “ripped from the headlines” plots, which gave its various shows countless opportunities to weigh in on hot-button topics while keeping enough distance from reality to avoid looking like it was actually exploiting real victims. Unfortunately, whatever power “ripped from the headlines” had was completely jettisoned a little over a year ago when NBC first backed off of airing “Unstoppable,” an episode of Law & Order: SVU that focused on a Donald Trump-like politician who had been accused of sexual assault by multiple women. Then, NBC quietly revealed that the episode wouldn’t air at all in the then-current SVU season, with the showrunner suggesting that the episode was no longer relevant in the wake of Trump’s election win.