Just because it’s been flouted in the past doesn’t make getting rid of it a good thing.
At some point, you need to recognize the hollowness of the institution. Otherwise, you’re not doing anything to preserve legal standards, you’re just going through the formal motions.
The ABA wasn’t a good thing. It was a rubber stamp. As soon as it tried to be a good thing it was tossed aside. This is because the institution was hollow. It didn’t do the job people professed it was doing. It crumbled immediately on the slightest pressure.
The solution is to build a more durable and robust institution, not to prop the paper tiger back up again. America is desperately in need of drastic judicial reforms. Maybe we can salvage something out of the folks at the ABA who had the spine necessary to test the limits of their power. But a toothless outside privately managed club of attorneys that can be brushed aside at the slightest inconvenience obviously isn’t a benefit to judicial oversight.
At some point, you need to recognize the hollowness of the institution. Otherwise, you’re not doing anything to preserve legal standards, you’re just going through the formal motions.
The ABA wasn’t a good thing. It was a rubber stamp. As soon as it tried to be a good thing it was tossed aside. This is because the institution was hollow. It didn’t do the job people professed it was doing. It crumbled immediately on the slightest pressure.
The solution is to build a more durable and robust institution, not to prop the paper tiger back up again. America is desperately in need of drastic judicial reforms. Maybe we can salvage something out of the folks at the ABA who had the spine necessary to test the limits of their power. But a toothless outside privately managed club of attorneys that can be brushed aside at the slightest inconvenience obviously isn’t a benefit to judicial oversight.
It’s true, the bucket had a hole in it. But throwing the bucket away means there’s nothing now.
Except possibly the soiled towel that has been declared a “bucket” by executive order, which we might get in the future.