To the editor: Regulation professor Margaret Tarkington is spending numerous ink arguing that former President Trump’s plan to overturn the 2020 election requires extra regulation of legal professionals representing authorities officers.
Certainly, her total piece should be learn to appreciate that the answer to the deficiencies she sees within the lawyer’s ethics and duties already exists.
As she lastly factors out in her remaining paragraph, legal professionals are required to take an oath earlier than they’ll symbolize shoppers, an oath that requires them to assist and defend the US Structure. Some states really embody their state structure and legal guidelines of their oath recitation.
As we now have seen within the Tom Girardi case, the true drawback, a minimum of in California, just isn’t a scarcity of guidelines, however the lack of integrity and dedication by the state lawyer normal’s disciplinary officers to carry legal professionals accountable and take away them from the occupation when oaths are damaged.
David L. Clark, Ventura
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To the editor: Attorneys typically observe the letter of the legislation whereas violating its spirit. They cause like canines and little youngsters:
“You stated to not undergo the kitchen door to the place the cookies are cooling, however you did not say something about going across the aspect of the home and climbing by the kitchen home windows.”
We’d like a broader definition of treason than the slender one within the Structure, which prohibits aiding and abetting the enemy in time of warfare.
And if legal professionals need respect, why do not they rid themselves and the nation of those dishonorable colleagues? At the very least canines and babies are lovable.
Norm Simon, Encinitas
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To the editor: Tarkington is unfairly utilizing a thick brush to tarnish the authorized occupation due to the actions of a few of Trump’s legal professionals. She forgets that legal professionals, apparently regardless of proof on the contrary, are human beings with human frailties.
The legal professionals who tried to assist the previous president overturn the 2020 election outcomes foolishly drank the Kool-Assist that Trump served them. And those that pleaded responsible within the Georgia election meddling case get off simple.
In my 53 years working towards legislation in Los Angeles, I’ve handled tons of of attorneys. I can depend on one hand the quantity that I really feel was unethical.
Jon Brod, Westwood
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To the editor: Whereas Tarkington’s letter is persuasive, she forgets an vital lawyer working in his capability as a member of Congress who additionally tried to vary the end result of the 2020 election. That lawyer is the lately elected Speaker of the Home, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.).
Eric Aukee, Sherman Oaks