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This may be your own prejudices here, since Bar orgs are almost exclusively about fitness and good practice, not political point-making
by richardhod 4y ago
This may be your own prejudices here, since Bar orgs are almost exclusively about fitness and good practice, not political point-making
- rayiner 4y agoNot recently: https://businesslawtoday.org/2020/10/anti-racist-speech-action-legal-profession-model-rule-8-4g-go https://businesslawtoday.org/2020/10/anti-racist-speech-acti.... In particular the ABA recently adopted a vague and sweeping model rule of ethnics that could be construed to, for example, prevent Muslim lawyers from advocating against policies on same sex marriage inconsistent with their religion. It is an extreme departure for a profession that historically prides itself on protecting the political process over making substantive judgments—a profession where the representation of nazis and murderers and terrorists in the name of access to the legal system for all is exalted. In the end only Vermont’s bar, adopted the rule (even Illinois rejected it: https://www.2civility.org/isba-assembly-opposes-adoption-8-4g-illinois https://www.2civility.org/isba-assembly-opposes-adoption-8-4...). But that just seems to me to be a minor bump in the road before the current crop of graduates from elite schools start replacing the folks in those bars as well.