Yeah, especially give the dismal state of public defenders. A justice system cannot be truly just if the defense for poor people barely exists and the defense for rich people can spend oodles of time mounting a full fledged defense.
Yeah the law, just as entire state, serves the ruling class, and is a weapon in class war. The access to it was historically always restricted for working class by many ways.
The SCOTUS decision that established the requirements for public defenders, Gideon v. Wainwright, was part of the Warren Court. That era in Supreme Court history brought US law forward by leaps and bounds in ways that people now don’t fully appreciate. The government had a lot more leeway to abuse citizens before then. Unfortunately, the current conservative court is largely a reaction to those “activist judges” and seeks to reverse the progress of that era. Good if you’re a business owner, Christian, non-LGBTQ+, or white. Bad otherwise.
Yeah, especially give the dismal state of public defenders. A justice system cannot be truly just if the defense for poor people barely exists and the defense for rich people can spend oodles of time mounting a full fledged defense.
Yeah the law, just as entire state, serves the ruling class, and is a weapon in class war. The access to it was historically always restricted for working class by many ways.
The SCOTUS decision that established the requirements for public defenders, Gideon v. Wainwright, was part of the Warren Court. That era in Supreme Court history brought US law forward by leaps and bounds in ways that people now don’t fully appreciate. The government had a lot more leeway to abuse citizens before then. Unfortunately, the current conservative court is largely a reaction to those “activist judges” and seeks to reverse the progress of that era. Good if you’re a business owner, Christian, non-LGBTQ+, or white. Bad otherwise.