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Baitball Blogger

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Wed Aug 16, 2023, 03:25 PM Aug 2023

There is a saying that probably applies to every state in the country and [View all]

it goes like this: If you ask the legal opinion from five different lawyers, you'll get five different answers.

Taking into account the incredible far reaches that we're seeing with the bad lawyer reasoning that led to the 1/6 insurrection, why don't we just point out the elephant in the room: If you ask the legal opinion from five different lawyers and you give five different answers, chances are high that two of them should get the lawyers sued for malpractice.

Eastman, Giuliani, Sydney Powell...they're just the tip of the iceberg. I came across far too many of these kind of novel thinkers in the past, but as an ordinary citizen, I was too powerless to do anything about it. And it's impossible to use the Ethics board, when you have the lawyer you want to see investigated serving on the board.

Time for lawyer reform.

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