Sam Moyn’s recent NYT op-ed arguing that trying to hold Trump criminally accountable at all was a big mistake is akin to his argument a quarter century ago that human rights lawyers were wrong to attack the abuses at Gitmo. He was wrong then. He is wrong now.
https://www.justsecurity.org/78204/the-humanity-of-michael-ratner-the-fabrications-of-samuel-moyn/
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Idiots.
Cynthia Fountaine, Complicity in the Perversion of Justice: The Role of Lawyers [and Judges] in Eroding the Rule of Law in the Third Reich, 10 St. Mary's J. on Legal Malpractice & Ethics 198 (2020).
Available at: https://commons.stmarytx.edu/lmej/vol10/iss2/2
Because ‘We the People’ allowed “norms”, “oaths”, “ethics” and “policies” instead of “laws” as guardrails for politicians and attorneys, The Republic is fucked.
Apparently, he was right...!!
Just sayin'.