Sunday, December 13, 2020

American Thinker on "The Honor of the Legal Profession"

Attorney James V DeLong, a former member of the board of editors of The Harvard Law Review, writes:

The legal establishment does not seem to grasp the long term consequences of its failure to uphold the profession's honor and integrity by supporting process values.

Millions of people believe, with good reason, that this election was stolen in the swing states. If the allegations receive an honest and searching inquiry from disinterested judges, these people will accept defeat, if that is how it turns out.

Other cases have been filed, and the courts, including the SCOTUS, may yet address the merits. If judges are too biased or cowardly to face the issues, then the law will indeed have fallen silent.

The consequences, not immediately but over the long term, will be ugly. Trump supporters will not rise in armed revolt, but the cynical betrayal of electoral honesty and legal honor will weaken the legitimacy of the legal and political systems.

 Read it all here: 

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/the_honor_of_the_legal_profession.html