The entire legal profession needs serious changes. One small example: If you listen to the radio in your car you likely hear at least one commercial per day by a law firm fishing for participants in class action suits (e.g. ‘If you or a loved one have used product x and are now suffering from disease y, you may be entitled to compensation’). Attorneys can become very wealthy from class action lawsuits, while ‘winning’ the many participating clients a pittance, and often screwing over a company whose product is actually good and not the cause of ‘disease y’.
The Rittenhouse case underscores an extremely dangerous practice, which dates back to the Salem witch trials if not before, of putting people on trial to pander to lynch mobs or their equivalents.
Prosecutors, especially those with political ambitions, latch on to socially popular issues such as fear of witches in the seventeenth century or sex crimes and racially-charged controversies today.
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Demand Congress ACT NOW.