To any objection that I am too hard on the judges and "justices" the judicial system as it extends through the lawyers and law professors and scholars, Trump delivers his criminal associate the duly convicted Roger Stone from prison with the express thanks to him for not cooperating in the possible criminal investigation of Donald Trump and I have complete confidence that all involved, Trump issuing a clearly corrupt, self-criminally-interested order, his equally if not more criminal Attorney General and Barr's hack lawyer-criminals, etc. will get away with it because the Supreme Court using the language of our massively defective Constitution and their own tradition of unillegalizing crime done by the rich and famous will allow that.
This system is corrupt, it was intentionally made so, if not by the possibly merely and masively short-sighted Founders when they gave a president such unquestionable powers (if they, indeed, intended them to go unquestioned) relied on the "honor" or senators to hold a criminal president of their own class and party accountable and other such tools of criminality that lawyers are trained to find and exploit for profit and power - those going to fhe elite training schools for such gangster lawyering, the Ivies, the private Ivy equivalent, some of them supposedly schools of "christian" education, some of the best such gangster lawyers and liars there are.
Naw, I think I have gotten the real character of the American legal system right. I do have to say that was one thing I got from the House Impeachment hearings, watching the lawyers who testified, who refused to testify, who commented on TV and radio and in print hedging and repeatedly telling us we could trust in the integrity of their fellow lawyers like Robert Mueller (a good buddy of the criminal William Barr, I will never stop reminding people) of the pre-Barr Rod Rosenstein (who even the compromised Comey knew would always protect and benefit his own ass, not the country) of those great "institutionalists" who had worked in the Department of Justice with them the many Republican-fascist lawyers in the House and Senate, - I compared them to the diplomats and military officers who served and knowingly went into danger in places like Ukraine, who knowingly put their careers and perhaps lives in danger by exposing the crimes of Trump and the lawyers weren't generally the ones who came up smelling like roses or even seemed to be connected to reality.
That line I gave a couple of months back about the law consisting of people replacing reality with words that they then babble about is just part of it. Which is true as far as it goes, but it's much worse than that. That assumes that the results of that lawyers' game depends on some kind of objective rationality. It doesn't, it's an entirely fixed game that is governed by the interests of those with the most money and the most power. You don't see poor people getting that kind of treatment by the law, certainly not since, maybe, the last "liberal" ruling about how criminal defendants are treated by it. When's the last one of those you can remember? And, no doubt, the Roberts' and other Republican-fascist courts have an agenda that includes gutting that precedent.
The Darwinian-fascist Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that the life of the law wasn't reason but experience. Yeah, experience in rigging it for the maximum benefits of gangsters.
There are good lawyers, I loved the guy we once hired to do some work for our family, a working class guy who once had a judge look askance at him because he figured out that the lawyer had an uncle who was a minor villain well known to the lower courts in the area. He was a really good lawyer. I like and respect a few of the more savvy ones who have appeared on MSNBC. But they're the exception.
What I like least of all are the media and show-biz romanticizers of the Supreme Court such as I mentioned yesterday. They tend to not be lawyers, they're allegedly journalists and movie scribblers, to mention other disgraceful excuses for what they're supposed to be.
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