A lot of people angry at lawyers and judges have delusions of what "law" is.

I've been saying for a few years ago that I think that, although there's a lot of anger to rightly be directed toward a large number of cops, that the focus on cops is like hating the stormtroopers and loving the emperor for most people on the far political left. Libertarians are different in that we hate everything from the stormtroopers to the emperor.

I'm realizing more and more that we have even more displaced anger than I thought.

I know a lot of lawyers and I know even more law school drop outs. The drop outs are all smart people; but, the reality of practicing law seems to have smacked all of them in the face. Namely, they lost the delusion of what law is that I grew up with and a lot of people still have.

This isn't Matlock, although Matlock was honest enough to have at least one episode in which the defense lawyer was defending a guilty person.

Still, the jobs of lawyers and judges are - wait for it - the law. Unless they get into politics their jobs aren't to make the law what they think it should be. The gig is to understand and interpret the law and see what the evidence says.

A lot of it is fairly dispassionate and it needs to be. That's one of the reasons why Thomas Binger's performance as a prosecutor was so laughable - half of his closing arguments were declarations about what he thought the law should be and not what it actually is.

Yeah, there are times to be angry at lawyers and judges; but, in general, if you're pissed off about a verdict or a court decision, you should focus on the people who are making the laws.

Ya know, the government.