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In reply to the discussion: Greenwald: CHENEY SHOULD BE IN PRISON, Not On 'Meet The Press' [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)that is what you are claiming. Or why any lawyer isn't required to consider the consequences of refusing to defend unpopular clients, either criminally or civilly.
But you don't seem to be able to point out why eg, The Civil Liberties Union are doing wrong by taking on cases other less courageous attorneys, refuse to take on?
Personally I think it takes a special kind of courage to take those cases on. Greenwald has that kind of courage.
Just because some lawyers are too cowardly to take on certain clients, worried more about their personal careers than the Constitutional Rights of everyone in this country, doesn't in any diminish the courage of those who do, like the Civil Liberties Union eg, and lawyers like Glenn Greenwald.
John Adams comes to mind. Would you have condemned him also for his defense of the most unpopular clients he could have wished for, in order to demonstrate that this is a country of LAWS rather than a tin horn dictatorship?