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Re:Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach Ne... by rayiner on Sunday August 15, 2021 @04:57AM (#28187252)
It goes deeper. I’m talking about younger staff at public interest law firms rebelling against representing organizational clients squarely within the ambit of their public interest mission, because of the client’s positions on unrelated issues. Much to the consternation of stoutly liberal attorneys of the previous generation.

It’s bad. Professionals inserting their personal political views into their jobs is destroying public faith in other professions. We can’t risk the legal profession coming to be seen as yet another way for the liberal elite to tilt the very systems of society in favor of their political ideology.

Re:Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach Ne... by tptacek on Sunday August 15, 2021 @11:42PM (#28194729)
Is your suggestion here that the legal profession has historically done a good job of keeping personal political views out of the practice of law?
Re:Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach Ne... by nate_meurer on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:09PM (#28203015)
Regarding the ACLU specifically, that's been my impression in the past. For example, their defense of Westoboro Baptist Church during the Bush era.