Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler:
My friend A, a lawyer, tells me that he is dismayed by what it happening to his profession. The weaponization of the justice system, the flagrant favoritism showed by prosecutors, the growing tendency of judges to enforce their own preferences all trouble him.
It has probably always been the case, A concedes, that a wealthy man can expect better treatment from the courts than his poor neighbor. But now the inequalities are grotesque. Petty criminals are convicted and jailed while powerful politicians are shielded from prosecution (unless the prosecutor is a political enemy, in which case they may be indicted for felony jaywalking). Woke district attorneys decline to press charges against shoplifters and drug dealers, while sending SWAT teams to arrest harmless matrons for praying outside abortion clinics or speaking up at school-board meetings.
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