Our judicial system, as imperfect as it may be (because nothing made by man is perfect), is still the best legal system in the history of mankind.

Our foundational principles, the right to counsel, innocent until proven guilty, trial by jury of your peers, thr burden of proof on the prosecutor, etc., all serve to prioritize the rights of the accused.

Our judicial system was supposed to be a bulwark against tyranny.

Out Founding Fathers wanted the judicial system to protect, and give the benefit of the doubt, to the accused citizen over the state prosecutor.  They did not want the judicial system to be a tool of tyranny by using trials as a political weapon.

For the tyrant a perverted judicial system is a tool of oppression, where the guilt of the accused is determined by the political alignment or identity of the accused, and the judicial system prescribes innocence or guilt based on extraneous factors.

Our judicial system is based on the principle of equal application of the law.  That may not have always been carried out but it was the principle, and one we strive to achieve.

For the tyrant, the law should be applied capriciously, to benefit those in favor and crush those disliked by the regime.

Woke is tyranny.  It is a system that uses the power of both the government and popular opinion to crush those who refuse to submit to its ideology.

This is what is happening to our judicial system by the indoctrination and licensure of Woke lawyers.

It’s not just Yale Law School. It’s all the law schools.

And it’s not just in law schools. It’s in law firms, courts, and government agencies.

At @bariweiss‘s Substack, I explore the terrifying takeover of the American legal system. https://t.co/WVvmMhDR3o

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

Starting this Fall, Georgetown Law School will require all students to take a class “on the importance of questioning the law’s neutrality” and assessing its “differential effects on subordinated groups.”

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

UC Irvine School of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law, and Boston College Law School have implemented similar requirements. Other law schools are considering them.

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

As of last month, the American Bar Association is requiring all accredited law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism,” both at the start of law school and “at least once again before graduation.”

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

That’s in addition to a mandatory legal ethics class, which must now instruct students that they have a duty as lawyers to “eliminate racism.” (The American Bar Association, which accredits almost every law school in the United States, voted 348 to 17 to adopt the new standard.)

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

It’s not just the elite law schools like Yale. At the Santa Clara University School of Law, administrators emailed students that the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse was “further evidence of the persistent racial injustice and systemic racism within our criminal justice system.”

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

Woke law schools and the Woke American Bar Association is not interested in neutral and equal application of the law.  They want equity, where the law is a tool to achieve some ideal of cosmic justice.  The individual accused and the merits of the case are irrelevant if the outcome of the case does not achieve their cosmic goals.

Hence the focus on the Rittenhouse trial.  There was an organization of exculpatory evidence for Rittenhouse but they wanted him to be convinced to serve as a lesson, you do not stand up to a violent Woke mob.

At Boston College Law School this semester, a constitutional law professor asked students: “Who does not think we should scrap the constitution?” According to a student in the class, not a single person raised their hand.

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

Of course, because the Constitution protects the rights of the accused as universal for all accused.  They want the rights of the accused to be determined by their Woke social hierarchy.

What happens at Yale Law School doesn’t stay at Yale Law School. Case in point: Rebecca Slaughter, a graduate of YLS and one of five commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission. In a Twitter thread in September 2020, Slaughter declared: “Antitrust can and should be antiracist.” pic.twitter.com/7dm8vikOqy

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

Then she added: “There’s precedent for using antitrust to combat racism. E.g., South Africa considers #racialequity in #antitrust analysis to reduce high economic concentration & balance racially skewed business ownership.” pic.twitter.com/WDZO3ay4y3

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

South Africa has become a failed state where racial mass murder happens on a daily basis. That is a feature, not  bug, for this system.

The idea that lawyers can’t be neutral, that confronting injustice must supersede all else, has eroded the norm that legal representation—like the ability to obtain medical care or buy a train ticket—is something every American deserves.

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

As the new ideology has been institutionalized, the costs of disobeying it have grown steeper, both for faculty and for students. ​​A Harvard Law professor told me that students face “social death” if they buck the consensus.

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

Law firms have been known to avoid unpopular clients, but the scope and frequency of these evasions have increased, dozens of lawyers interviewed for this story agreed. That’s partly because young lawyers see representing someone as tantamount to endorsing them.

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

This is an ultimate betrayal of our judicial system, to deny the accused the right to counsel.

All “right minded” lawyers will deny the politically or socially undesirable representation and those lawyers who do their duty and protect the rights of the accused will become pariah in their field.

“It doesn’t even occur to people to take controversial cases,” one lawyer in Washington, D.C., said. Religious liberty cases, for example, are “totally off the table. I wouldn’t even think to bring it up.”

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

“If you were going to do a gun rights case, you would incur the wrath of other clients.” Since 2011, law firms have been pressured to drop or turn down a long list of clients: fossil fuel companies, foreign universities, employers challenging Biden’s vaccine mandate, Trump.

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

“If you were going to do a gun rights case, you would incur the wrath of other clients.” Since 2011, law firms have been pressured to drop or turn down a long list of clients: fossil fuel companies, foreign universities, employers challenging Biden’s vaccine mandate, Trump.

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

The problem, Strossen said, is that rights mean nothing without representation. “ANYONE who doesn’t have access to counsel in defending a right, as a practical matter, doesn’t have a meaningful opportunity to exercise that right,” the former ACLU chief told me in an email.

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

This is a feature, not a bug.  The government will strip you of a civil liberty and then you will be unable to fight in court to get it back because you will be unable to obtain a lawyer because the right you desire is disliked by the Woke mob.

Another cornerstone of the rule of law is an impartial judiciary. Some judges, however, have begun to see themselves not as impartial adjudicators, but as agents of social change—believing, like Slaughter, that they cannot be neutral in the midst of moral emergencies.

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

During the BLM protests in 2020, Massachusetts Superior Court judge Shannon Frison vowed on Facebook to “never be silent or complicit again, in any courtroom or any context.” “As the very keepers of justice,” judges “not only stand with the protesters—we fall with them.”

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

The Washington State Supreme Court put out a statement recognizing “the role we have played in devaluing black lives,” and encouraged judges to strike down “even the most venerable precedent” if it is “incorrect and harmful.” https://t.co/bY8RrPXxUc

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

Such statements are not mere virtue signaling. They reflect sincerely held beliefs with real-world consequences.

Case in point: the case of Montez Terriel Lee, Jr, who burned down a Minneapolis pawn shop in 2020, killing a 30-year-old father of five.

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

Usually, this sort of crime, according to federal sentencing guidelines, would have landed Lee in prison for up to 20 years. But the prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Calhoun-Lopez, only asked for 12 years. https://t.co/hzmVfXxIW4

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

This is exactly what Biden’s current SCOTUS nominee has done regarding pedophiles.

Then there’s the erosion of the principle that one is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. “The Anti-Innocence Project,” one criminal-defense attorney in San Francisco joked.

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

“The same people who are anti-incarceration for some defendants will support life plus cancer for others,” said Scott Greenfield (@ScottGreenfield), a criminal-defense attorney in New York.

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) March 21, 2022

Again, the goal is capricious conviction based on the identity or political alignment of the accused, not the evidence of guilt.

They hate our judicial system and want to use it as a weapon of tyranny to reinforce their ideology.

They cannot overtly destroy it, they do not have the electoral mandate for that.

What they will do is fill the ranks if our judicial system, lawyers and judges, with Woke activists who put the tenets of their ideology above the principles of our system.

They have started to and very may well completely destroy justice in the country.

They are taking away the ballots box and taking away the jury box bulwarks against their tyranny.

Monday late afternoon. Watching a bit of the tube with the missus and hearing not so distant gunfire.

Smiling knowing one of the neighbors is practicing/plinking because this is Tennessee.

Several readers sent me different articles about this memorable occasion.

Today, Governor Eric Holcomb signed House Bill 1296, constitutional carry, into law. The General Assembly previously passed HB 1296 on March 8th. This makes Indiana the 24th constitutional carry state, and the third to join that group in 2022, following Ohio and Alabama. Indiana already offers free lifetime carry permits, so constitutional carry ensures that law-abiding citizens who are already eligible to obtain a carry permit can access their right-to-carry without government red tape and delays. Constitutional carry will go into effect on July 1st, 2022.

NRA-ILA | Indiana: Gov. Holcomb Signs Constitutional Carry (nraila.org)

One more state and half the country will be Constitutional Carry (with small different flavors depending). And my prediction is that we should see the damn busting and the flooding going towards most of the remaining states, pretty much what happened with Shall Issue Carry or maybe even faster.

Obviously, this Constitutional Carry trend has not set well with Moms Demand who were desperate to the point of seemingly accepting permitted carry as trade for Governor Holcomb to veto the bill.

Of course, when I pointed out the shift in their position..

This was her response:

Oh well. We shall celebrate when have the 26th State becoming Constitutional. I may even order a Moms Demand T shirt and burn it in the backyard to celebrate their impending trip into obvlivion.

The modified definition is meant to disrupt a supply chain that has strengthened over the past five years, gun control experts said. The number of unserialized (and thus unregulated) firearms seized by major metro police departments has grown exponentially. In Philadelphia, local police seized 571 ghost guns in 2021 compared to 13 in 2018. In New York City, police seized 375 ghost guns in 2021 compared to 48 in 2019, according to city data.

“I could spend hours telling these stories about how these ghost guns have hurt our community and made our streets unsafe,” Baltimore Police Chief Michael Harrison, whose department seized nine ghost guns in 2018 compared to 352 in 2021, said at a January press conference.

Proposed ‘ghost gun’ rule could reshape battle against homemade guns: Experts – ABC News (go.com)

Let’s forget for a minute that the tale of tracing firearms as a violence-solving tool is well documented to be a colossal failure.  But what I wonder is why, after years and years of people making their own guns all over the US, the only places that have a “violence” issue with them is cities like Baltimore? Is Chief Harrison implying that before Ghost Guns, Charm City was a beacon of piece and innocence? A location where children played safely in the streets and unicorns roamed freely in its parks?

We know better.

Hat Tip MarkC

Number one:

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – City of Miami Beach officials declared a state of emergency on Monday and an upcoming curfew, bidding to curb violent incidents at spring break that saw five people wounded in two separate shootings.
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber and City Manager Alina Hudak announced the emergency order at an afternoon news conference. It includes a curfew for the South Beach area that starts early Thursday after midnight and runs through the weekend.
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The mayor said about 100 guns have been seized over the past four weeks, and several police officers have been injured while controlling the crowds.

“We can’t endure this anymore. We just simply can’t,” Gelber said. “This isn’t your father or your mother’s spring break. This is something wholly different.”
Gelber noted that the five people were shot over the weekend despite 371 police officers being deployed.
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At the urging of some residents, city officials have been working in recent years to crack down on unruly behavior in South Beach. But efforts to curb the excessive drinking and violence have raised complaints about racism, classism and business practices.

Spring break shootings: Miami Beach emergency brings curfew (local10.com)

Number two:

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale has been pretty clam so far this year, especially when compared to the scene in Miami Beach.

So far during Spring Break, police officers in Fort Lauderdale have only made 14 arrests.

“Spring break. I’m here to have fun with my friends, chill, settle down,” said Hermish Adarkwaah, who is visiting South Florida from New York.

Restaurants were busy on Monday night, but even with the larger crowds, locals say it’s been pretty tame this year.

Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale has been very chill, especially when compared to Miami Beach (local10.com)

Some of the older readers might be remembering that years and years back, it was Ft Lauderdale the one city who had the reputation for wild Spring Breaks. Movies were made about the wild times and loads of fun being had alcohol to be consumed and being the times before AIDS, unlimited and unprotected sex.

So, what brought the change? The influence of Residents in both cases. Ft Lauderdale residents (over 400K of them) had enough of the craziness, elected like-minded people and put the screws on businesses catering to the wild kids while rolling out the red carpet to couples and families who just wanted to have a nice vacation time. That, of course did not stop the party crowd immediately and there was a transition period where hotels would overtly warn anybody who looked like students that they would be evicted at the first violation without any refunds to be had. As fare as I know, this is still the way they run during Spring Break and Lord knows I did my share of evictions when I worked in the area with the full backing of the corporation.

What happened in Miami Beach? My guess is that not enough people Pop 90K) cared initially at switching the city’s image from a vacation sport for old folks, Gay Clubs and Jewish Seniors warehousing to an Urban Music destination for certain weekends of the year which eventually extended to an almost 24/7/365 before they knew what was happening. And by the time things started to get out of control, the voice of the people simply could not match the taxable income from the invading crowds and thus the city council leaned heavy on the business side of the problem.

Now imagine having bought a very expensive apartment nearby Ocean Drive (Everything in Mimi Beach is near Ocean Drive) and having to live with this in different sizes all year long? And then realizing that unless you find an idiot or some corporate Rapper, you cannot move out because no sane person will want to live in that chaos.

I saw J Kb’s post Winning parents’ hearts and minds and I can’t stop laughing at the stupid behind this.

I guess they don’t understand Floridians are ornery, especially when a bunch of carpetbaggers come tell us how retarded we are. Last time a bunch of morons used banner and signs to push their progressive agenda, it did not go well either.

We laugh, we take pictures and then go 180 degrees from your intended direction.