I remember as a young kid observing the arrangement where a lawyer would defend as a matter of their profession the most dangerous or deranged suspects. I thought about the ethical dilemmas that must have been involved. In my young mind it had to be complicated. What if the advocate intuited their client’s guilt?
Now as an adult I’m reading about special prosecutors being prosecuted just for doing their jobs. How does this make sense? Given the venal behavior of the Supreme Court, and the professed intentions of the Attorney General nominee, and near unlimited powers of immunity granted a priori to an executive officer, can we even call what we have now a system of Justice?
