Online Lib Lawyers: Dumb or Lying? |
I was a lawyer for about 30 years, and I’m picky. I despise bad lawyers. They are both intellectually insulting and professionally offensive. I dealt with a lot of bad lawyers in my time: dishonest ones, devious ones, and a lot of dumb ones. Now, I don’t define a bad lawyer as somebody who just disagrees with me. Literally every lawyer I encountered disagreed with me—that’s how law works. There’s a difference between disagreeing with me and being an idiot. But most of the lawyers out there in the political sphere are idiots.
Now, I need to inject a note of caution because, as you’re well aware, there is always a question that arises when a leftist talks – whether he is an idiot or thinks you are an idiot. In other words, are these lawyers on Twitter stupid, or do they believe that you are stupid enough to believe them? Let’s look at the recent decision in Callais. Contrary to what you’ve been told—which is that the U.S. Supreme Court said black people can’t have representation in Congress—what the Court held is that the Voting Rights Act, which is designed to ensure that everybody has a fair chance to participate in the political process, does not require certain districts to be designed so that only black people can be elected. Note that the black people in these Black districts are always Democrats. If they were black Republicans, the Democrats wouldn’t care, of course. It’s like with illegal aliens. If there were hordes of lawyers flooding our borders and driving down hourly rates, every attorney in America would be complaining that Tom Homan is too much of a sissy and needs to ramp up deportation times 100 plus mine the Rio Grande.
In any case, the Constitution is clear that you can’t discriminate on the basis of race. It violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. And the statute at issue, the VRA,........