posted ago by luckyfunk13
+40 / -0
Judges serve the people. It is no longer a moniker of respect and people take these labels to mean they are above the people they serve. These traditions, including robes and extended to SCOTUS, need to be abandoned. Remind them that they serve at the pleasure of the people and not the other way around. This isn't England, damnit. No nancy-wigs...
To be fair, the BAR is from England. Lawyers swear to an essentially foreign power when they make their oaths. Judges don't feel like they represent the people because they don't. They represent the crown against the people.
"The Bar was England's own British Accreditation Registry, its members were considered to be nobles -- being above the common person, and all lawyers or attorneys had to belong to it, and they were under the will of the King, and the Bank of England"