I don’t believe I require the term “Spitzer” to be added to my vocabulary: I’ve referred to lawyer-politicians and lawyer-judges as “Shysters” since the ’70′s, and that seems to work just fine for me. Additionally, the term makes all of the right people angry when I use it. I like that.

How come nobody ever talks about the possibility of making anyone with a law degree ineligible to run for office in a legislative body, or to sit on any bench as a judge? I’m betting that would solve 75% of the problems in the US right there.

If we limited lawyers to the adversarial part of the legal process, where their necessary evil belongs, we might have a nice country again.

How is it not a conflict of interest for lawyers to make law and judge law, and how is the legal system not a racket with lawyers making, judging, prosecuting, and defending from the law?

The only difference between lawyers and gangsters is that lawyers operate with the approval of the government, because they ARE the government.