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The White House attack on the Smithsonian is nuts. It slams an 11 YO girl, calls Toni Morrison "an anti-white activist," and criticizes an exhibit that mentions women "bobbing their hair" for encouraging women to embrace "more masculine dress and hair styles." www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...).
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![“[T]he right to counsel is the foundation for our adversary system,” Martinez v.
Ryan, 566 U.S. 1, 12 (2012), and the “courage” of attorneys who take on unpopular clients has
long “made lawyerdom proud,” Sacher v. United States, 343 U.S. 1, 4 (1952). John Adams famously embodied these principles by defending eight British soldiers in the “Boston Massacre”
trial, an effort he described as “one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country.”1
And
British monarchs’ practice of punishing attorneys “whose greatest crime was to dare to defend unpopular causes”—which threatened to reduce lawyers to “parrots of the views of whatever group
wields governmental power at the moment”—helped inspire the Bill of Rights. Cohen v. Hurley, 366 U.S. 117, 138-40 (1961) (Black, J., dissenting). It is thus a core principle of our legal system
that “one should not be penalized for merely defending or prosecuting a lawsuit.” F. D. Rich Co.
v. United States ex rel. Indus. Lumber Co., 417 U.S. 116, 129 (1974).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mzbqzrmqryfu7jnsotgfy3cp/bafkreiclfec54rh5vivxeewmoxap7ow747cym7pqj466euxcx4uyq4efki)
