As a lawyer who has fought and lost for equality and against discrimination, I can appreciate your distrust of the law and probably also for lawyers. You point out correctly how politicized the Courts are currently and at the highest level, which has resulted in a sea change in the law with a far right SCOTUS. We have seen in the last 40…
As a lawyer who has fought and lost for equality and against discrimination, I can appreciate your distrust of the law and probably also for lawyers. You point out correctly how politicized the Courts are currently and at the highest level, which has resulted in a sea change in the law with a far right SCOTUS. We have seen in the last 40 years a deliberate, determined resolution by Republicans to stack the courts with far right judges. That points to the necessity of fighting back through the same political process. Unfortunately, the extreme right has even been more spectacularly successful in creating an authoritarian racist presidency than in molding an extreme right wing judiciary.
As a lawyer who has fought and lost for equality and against discrimination, I can appreciate your distrust of the law and probably also for lawyers. You point out correctly how politicized the Courts are currently and at the highest level, which has resulted in a sea change in the law with a far right SCOTUS. We have seen in the last 40 years a deliberate, determined resolution by Republicans to stack the courts with far right judges. That points to the necessity of fighting back through the same political process. Unfortunately, the extreme right has even been more spectacularly successful in creating an authoritarian racist presidency than in molding an extreme right wing judiciary.