How Big Law Killed The Democrats
A group of elite lawyers is playing for all sides — and it’s costing the American people.
By Matt Stoller
For a long time, I’ve discussed a secret center of power in America, what is known as “Big Law,” a network of law firms that serve as a shadow government for the out-of-power party.
Lawyers have always had a special place in America. They must maintain a dual loyalty, serving clients with advice and court representation, but serving the public as officers of the court. There’s a dense ethical code lawyers must maintain. For instance, they can’t help their clients break the law, and they can’t switch sides in a dispute.
In 1931, Robert Jackson, who later served on the Supreme Court, gave a speech to the American Bar Association making that point. “We believe in an independent bar, free not only from government control, but intellectually independent of client control,” he said. “In the client-and-attorney relation the client is not a master, the lawyer is not a mere hired hand. He is an officer of the Court, with a duty of independent judgment in the performance of his professional service and under a duty to serve all sorts and conditions of men.”
But Jackson, along with men he admired such as Louis Brandeis, did not feel that lawyers, especially those in New York working for financial firms, lived up to their billing, instead seeking to twist the law on behalf of the powerful. And the problem is much worse in modern America, dominated as it is by oligarchs. This is especially true in cloistered specialities like antitrust.
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It may seem difficult to accept such corruption, but if you study the financial crisis of 2008, the top architects of the crimes did not pay a legal price. A prime example is Richard Fuld Jr, a crime boss, IMO, for Lehman Brothers, who oversaw the intentional fraud and the highest bankruptcy the financial world had ever seen...close to $700 billion. He never went to jail and is working
today, our American culture allowed him to "reinvent" himself.
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She's a part of that legal structure that's destroyed our institutions. I've never had anyone here at DU respond to me in agreement. Curious. Both are christo-fascist pigs. They work together like Alito and his wife (upside-down flag lady) and Thomas and his wife (never turned down a free trip to a fancy buffet dinner). The way those slugs attacked Hillary and Kamala. These ladies are fair game. 
