My father was a lawyer, my grandfather was a judge. One thing I heard over and over again as [View all]

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a kid from both of them was "everyone is entitled to competent counsel, everyone deserves their day in court." My father represented large corporations but he also represented the elevator operator in his building (they had them in those days) who was falsely accused of rape. I remember that we celebrated the day he came home after winning that case.

This was the America I grew up in. Having those beliefs wasn't "radical left" or radical anything, it was American.

BTW, the only Democrat I think my father ever voted for was JFK.