In fairness the American legal profession IE lawyers is more about learning how to get around Constitutional law then it is about enforcing/applying constitutional law.
So I wouldn’t ask a lawyer to interpret the constitution as they will give you a bunch of court rulings that undermined the same constitution in favor of the power of the courts and the government thus by extension the lawyers that uses and dominate them.
This is not to say that there are not honest folk out there who happen to be lawyers by trade, its simply pointing out that the nature of their profession disinclines them to give an answer which is respectful of the reserved rights of the people.(including the right to self-government and State Constitutional government)
“starie decisis” shouldn’t apply to interpretation of the Constitution, not after the liberals have sat on SCOTUS.
I meant to post, “shouldn’t ALWAYS apply”
So the professors made them do it? Yea, right. It takes a fair amount of active grey matter between the ears just to get to the point of being accepted to law school and we are to accept they don’t have the cognicent reasoning capabilities when reading the Consititution as we simpleton rubes seem to have been graced with?
A pox on them all as far as I am concerned. Career politician lawyers on both sides played on our good will and trust in their knowledge of training. That is the reason we are in the mess we find ourselves and I will always support an outsider non-legal type before I ever will the opposite.
My estimation is the civil legal arena has become nothing more than a life suppport system for attorneys and in many cases the same goes for criminal legal defense attorneys as well. They advance up to be a judge in the very courtrooms they made their alliances and the wheel keeps going round and round.
Thinnist book in the library-"The American Bar Association Listing of Honest Lawyers"
With respect you you...you lost me right there.
There can be no "fairness" with respect the "legal profession." There is no "fair" in a courtroom. Its the law as it is being interpreted.
Only what is legal as defined by the U.S. Constitution and the rulings of the Supreme Court.
Being fair with a lawyer is akin to assisted suicide...and much more expensive.