| Nuremberg? Wasn't the story about computer nerds or something? http://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibilit... Many state bar associations have rules like that one. Lawyers can make good-faith arguments that their client's behavior isn't illegal. They can't break the law for their clients or help their clients break the law. No one should be stuck, unable to get a lawyer and put up a fair legal fight, just because some part of the population condemns them as amoral, but can't pass a law expressing that condemnation that stands up to civil liberties challenge. Lawyers should serve hated people, too, and ideally do for them just as they would do for themselves if they understood the law and the system. Lawyers who can do that for truly loathsome clients are superheroes. They often set aside deep feelings and strongly held personal convictions in the service of the greater value of a fairer legal system. It's a real-life Gom Jabbar test, and repeat sittings have driven many good lawyers to self-destruction, one way or another. So: If you don't want lawyers helping assholes, try and pass a law against being an asshole. It would be vague. Prejudiced assholes would wield it against legitimate non-assholes. Good lawyers defending actual assholes would kill it in court. More succinctly: https://youtu.be/WMqReTJkjjg?t=2m10s |