According to a recently published report, the percentage of lawyers among public officials elected to high offices by the American public is in steady decline.
The numbers quoted are:
80% of government officials in mid-19th century were lawyers
60% in the 1960s and
40% (less than half) in 2015
That steady decline clearly shows public distrust to the "honorable" legal profession.
And, if the legal profession will continue to do what it is doing, stripping the public of their right to choose independent court representatives, depriving the public of independent court representatives on contrived grounds and giving to lawyers elevated to the judicial and prosecutorial positions absolute immunity for malicious and corrupt acts - lawyers will be elected to public offices less and less.
Will the legal profession take notice or will it continue to parade to its own drum, in complete oblivion of the writing on the wall?
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