Good and bad lawyers, and justice

Lawyers and painters share some similarities in work. They can change white to black, and vice versa.

Defense lawyer and Fox News commentator Megyn Kelly professed: “I’m a soulless lawyer. Give me an opinion and I can argue it.” Oh, why, indeed, the longer lawyers stay in the practice of their profession, the firmer they tend to lose their souls and become servants of injustice rather than justice?

The “legal” chasm hitherto that sets apart good lawyers from the bad ones is the huge “evil divide” that spells the difference between righteousness and wickedness in our society.

Lawyers know the law. Good lawyers know the Great Judge, too.

Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer, but a godly one. An anecdote in the internet has this story about him: Lincoln was once asked if he ever admitted past errors and apologized for them. “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “I do make amends for my big mistakes but not for little ones.”

“What do you mean by little mistakes?” probed his companion. “Well,” drawled Lincoln, “I once said ‘liar’ when I meant to say ‘lawyer’; there were such little differences that I didn’t correct it.”

“Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this world, you have the law.”—William Gaddis

To our leaders: Do us pure and genuine justice by “looking up” to know and realize that right is right and wrong is wrong.

“It is impossible to rule the world without God and the Bible.” —George Washington

RENI M. VALENZUELA, [email protected]