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bucolic_frolic

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3. Entrenched justice

Reply to iemitsu (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 30, 2020, 01:52 PM

Jun 2020

I'm sure most lawyers are ethical, but it's a system that grows and grows. Many intergenerational firms. Everybody's been a lawyer for 75 years, they do business with the state, the judicial system needs more money, larger courthouses, more jails, fees go up to pay for it all. It's a legal Leviathan.

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Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws or oaths remained on the bench [View all] Roc2020 Jun 2020 OP

All of them need to be removed and lose their pension. LiberalFighter Jun 2020 #1

It is pretty much impossible to remove someones pension. Scruffy1 Jun 2020 #8

The judicial system needs an overhaul iemitsu Jun 2020 #2

Entrenched justice bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #3

Holy crap. mahina Jun 2020 #4

This is something else Biden should campaign on fixing. n/t thesquanderer Jun 2020 #5

yes. it's been swept under the rug Roc2020 Jun 2020 #6

Cogs in the wheel of the Prison-Industrial Complex. Police. Judge. Prison. Repeat. nt TheFourthMind Jun 2020 #7

Just a suggestion... not_the_one Jul 2020 #9

Unfortunately usajumpedtheshark Jul 2020 #10