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There are plenty of examples where legal ethics or librarian ethics have conflicted with government policy.
by morgante 10y ago
There are plenty of examples where legal ethics or librarian ethics have conflicted with government policy.
- slavik81 10y agoWhile that is true, they largely agree with policy. There's only occasional conflicts. Those organisations have long histories and clearly defined, non-partisan principles that most people largely agree with. Congress is not going to pass a law to deport Mexicans and Muslims, then pass a law to establish an organization that is designed to thwart their previous law.
- morgante 10y agoPerhaps Congress won't, but that's assuming that government is unitary. Professional licensing is done at the state level anyways. It would be very easy to imagine, for example, California passing a law to establish/bolster a developer guild at the same time that Congress is trying to deport Muslims.
- slavik81 10y agoI don't think state governments could bar programmers from working on federal projects. I suppose they might be able to bar them from working on anything but federal projects, though. Maybe. I'm not exactly a constitutional scholar.
- morgante 10y agoSure they could. It's not like the federal government can just ignore local regulations in the areas where it operates. Attorneys working for the government are all members of the bar in their respective jurisdictions.
- slavik81 10y agoThere is the supremacy clause. If state and federal law conflict, then federal law is applied. The state government cannot flat out prohibit the federal government from implementing a federal law.
- anigbrowl 10y agoStop looking at it as a technical legal problem and start considering it as a sociopolitical one. Even if an organization doesn't have the legal means to obstruct the federal government it can still stand for something politically and have significant social ramifications. The Pirate Party as a political entity springs to mind.