Legal defense feels like another system in crisis, like health care, where there's just no where near enough capacity for the system's demands. The citizenry sl

Legal defense feels like another system in crisis, like health care, where there's just no where near enough capacity for the system's demands. The citizenry sliding into a less and less reasonably well represented state, their respect under the law diminishing: it's hard to imagine what else we could do, how we can retain the decency & dignity & legitemacy of the state, as the crunch comes. > In a pair of decisions, the [previous] court said that if a defendant is represented by an ineffective lawyer during their post-conviction proceedings, and that lawyer fails to argue that the defendant was represented by an ineffective lawyer during the defendant’s trial, a federal court can still hear the defendant’s claim that they received ineffective assistance at trial in violation of the Sixth Amendment. Of course that's just too reasonable & decent for the current Court. Again more seeming sensibility & decency, hurled into the gutter. More precedent overturned, more malice for all. The NeoCon agenda felt like it was at attempt to push American might abroad, but having failed that, we seem to be increasingly authoritarian & uncaring at home.