John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog documents an interesting development in the American legal community.
Not too many years ago, the bar was one of the pillars of the Republican Party. Abraham Lincoln was the patron saint of lawyers; my father had a lovely portrait of Lincoln, painted on wood, in his law office for many years. But times have changed: now, a large majority of lawyers are Democrats. (Their secretaries, on the other hand, are more likely to be Republicans.) This is part of the broader reshuffling of our political alignment.
Lawyers have become Democrats, not because they have been reading Marx or Foucault, or because Barack Obama made brilliant arguments (just kidding), but rather because they realized that it is the Democrats who are on their side, financially. Whenever Congress enacts a sweeping law like OSHA, ERISA, NEPA, Dodd-Frank, and so on, and whenever a federal agency issues a new set of regulations pursuant to one of those statutes, every company in America has to figure out how to comply with the new rules. So they hire lawyers. The Democratic Party has become a cash machine for the legal profession.
These days, there are not many liberals. Most Democrats are fanatical left-wingers, even among lawyers. …
… Donald Trump is a new George III! Are they kidding?
More specifically, “sowing distrust in electoral processes?” How about the fact that no Republican since George H.W. Bush has been elected President without Democrats claiming that the election was rigged and he is an illegitimate president? How about countless Democrats, starting with Hillary Clinton, alleging that Donald Trump was an “illegitimate president” following the 2016 election? …
… Executive power? Trump’s executive orders have generally been upheld, once they got past the initial guard of judge-shopped district court judges who are loyal to the Democratic Party. Unlike Barack Obama, who lost several cases in a 9-0 Supreme Court, holding that he had acted unconstitutionally, Trump has generally fared well in the appellate courts.
