Reprinted from The Satirical Political Report http://satiricalpolitical.com
In a move that legal scholars are calling both stunning and long overdue, the American Bar Association (ABA) has issued a ruling prohibiting all lawyers from serving in, or representing, the Bush Administration.
Although this decision had been under consideration for some time, the straw that broke the camel's back was the recent statement of Charles D. Stimson, a senior Pentagon official, who condemned lawyers at leading national firms for providing representation to prisoners at Guantánamo, and suggested that corporate clients should terminate their relationship with such firms. The same point appeared Friday on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.
The decision by a special three-member panel of the ABA was based on a seldom-used disciplinary rule, DR-666, which provides that "a lawyer's duty of zealous representation does not apply to a client who is the devil-incarnate."
However, the decision was not unanimous, as Professor Alan Dershowitz of the Harvard Law School cast a dissenting vote, on the basis that "the ruling did not go far enough, and should have included a proviso for the torture and rendition of these right-wing lawyers."
Dershowitz further explained: "After all, these guys are a ticking time-bomb, and have done more damage to our way of life than the terrorists."
The ACLU is also lobbying for more drastic measures to guard against the further erosion of constitutional rights by the Bush Administration and its chief consigliere, Alberto "The Loophole" Gonzales. The most far-reaching proposal is the immediate incarceration of all members of the "ultra-conservative" Federalist Society, whose members include Supreme Court Justices Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito.
Under this plan, as set forth by the ACLU’s Executive Director, "all those who have tried to shred the Constitution should get a taste of their own medicine, and spend a few years at Guantanamo, without legal representation or their ‘bible,’ the Wall Street Journal editorial page."
As summarized by the ACLU, paraphrasing Shakespeare, "Let’s kill all the lawyers who try to kill the law."