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Lawyers are vital to the way the law and politics work. Or don't work. Are there any kind of specific ideas you have in mind for how their role in politics might change?
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Let's assume we are not Dick the Butcher and some Englishman gets a cunning plan to get rid of the all as reported by William Shakespeare.

Do you think judges should be systematically more aggressive with lawyers who contravene some kind of rule the way Rudy Guiliani got sanctioned? Some kind of systematic involvement with the appointment of judges, the way about half the states have a commission of varying kinds (in Arizona, the bar names five lawyers, and the governor picks another ten with half of them from one single party and then the chief justice is the chairman) who give the governor a list for each vacancy from which the governor must select.

Or even just simply being shown in media in different ways, like how much of their work is really boring and not anything like shouting in a courtroom the way you might see in a legal drama and how lawyers are not Cicero quoting machines speaking in Latin and French all the time.

Plus, the legislatures in the states, territories, Congress, and many county commissions and local councils has a huge number of lawyers in it, way more than their share of the population. Some of them I imagine would make for good legislators and aid the legislative process but a legislature that people don't see as having much in common with themselves isn't a great recipe for trust with the said legislature.

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Lawyer-free legislature? Imagine the clear laws we'd accidentally pass

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