The US is categorized as a "Constitutional Democracy". To be more accurate, it is a 'constitutional federal republic'. However, one may choose to describe it, the word constitutional will undoubtedly appear. Without exception the constitution is considered the 'supreme law of the land'. All laws passed by Congress since the inception of the country are based on the essence and parameters of the constitution. In the course of human events and the development of the nation, inevitably situations have arisen that require 'interpretation' of the constitution. The clear intent of the constitution as it would apply to these unique events isn't always crystal clear. The profession whose ordained purpose is to interpret the law on the basis of the constitution is, of course, attorneys. I think most Americans take for granted that lawyers are trained to interpret the law based on the constitution. To an extent, that is true. Or at least, it is supposed to be true. Let me explain.
Lawyers, like other professionals matriculate through university programs then obtain advanced degrees in law. If you have been following the political winds in the US for the past fifty years or so, you are no doubt aware that university staffs, and students for that matter, have become increasingly quite partisan. And for the most part, which I can't explain, they are quite liberal. Academics tend to lean to the far left. This idealistic orientation isn't confined to the liberal arts and philosophy by any means. If anything, idealism is ingrained in law schools more than any other discipline.
Once out of law school, lawyers' careers are supremely affected by the American Bar Association. Lawyers must be licensed by the ABA in order to practice their profession. The control and influence the ABA has on lawyers' careers doesn't start upon graduation from law school. The ABA is the de facto governing body that accredits law schools, rating judges, and weaponizing lawyer discipline. Academicians, especially legal academicians have long been known to be far left in political ideology. So too, are the elders of the ABA. Recently, a Senate and White House legal liaison to the ABA advocated for the Trump administration to stop using the ABA to prescreen judicial nominees. "The activist organization has taken a partisan role in America's legal system since it began evaluating judicial nominees in 1953", he said. Multiple studies of ABA ratings have documented systematic bias against Republican nominees. For example, the ABA rated as 'qualified' Charnelle Bjelkengen who, at her confirmation hearing was unable to tell Senator John Kennedy the purpose of Article V of the Constitution. Bjelkengren was nominated to be a federal judge in the eastern district of Washington.
The ABA's public actions grew increasingly partisan throughout the Biden admin and into the early days of Trump's second term. The ABA claimed that bar associations had a First Amendment right to engage in racial discrimination. Seriously?... During previous democratic administrations the ABA adamantly installed DEI training in all university law programs. For many years the ABA has had a virtual monopoly on entry into the legal profession. Through the organizations' dominance of the legal profession far left extremism has become the theme of legal practice in the US. More importantly, Americans have been deprived of lawyers and justices dedicated to the US Constitution. The Trump admin has halted DEI mandated university programs, which the ABA has temporarily suspended.
For a long time, leftists have controlled the American legal system. Publicly available data shows that lawyers are huge Democratic Party financiers, at both the state and federal levels. Since Trump took office, countless executive actions have been halted through orders from liberal leftist federal judges (like Bjelkengren almost was...), who are issuing rulings on executive matters over which they have no constitutional jurisdiction whatsoever; such as foreign affairs. The legal profession is a critical part of American politics, and even American life. We depend on it to deliver fair and impartial justice. Unbeknownst to most Americans, that has not been happening... The ABA needs to be dissolved and discarded and added to the scrap pile of American hubris. The US Supreme Court has some housekeeping it needs to do.
#jurispridence #federaljudges #americanbarassociation #legalsystem #americanjurisprudence
No comments:
Post a Comment