Qasim Rashid, Esq.Feb 23, 2023

America’s legal system today

I want to practice law:
—You need a 4 year Bachelors, take the LSAT, then a 3 year JD, then pass the BAR, buy malpractice insurance, & total cost is ~$300K

I want to enforce the law:
—Here’s paid 13-week training & a gun

I want to write the law:
—No qualifications needed and a billionaire can buy you a seat

Show threadAdam GurriFeb 23, 2023
@QasimRashid @paulgowder low barriers to entry to street level bureaucracy and politic is good, actually. Runaway credentialism is bad, actually :)
Show threadExtinction (our fate)Feb 23, 2023
@adamgurri @QasimRashid @paulgowder Police are not the kind of "street level bureaucracy" that are "good." We should be spending more time training cops, and less money educating lawyers.
Show threadAdam GurriFeb 23, 2023
@aka_quant_noir @QasimRashid @paulgowder I agree we should have high professional standards for police (I even wrote about it https://www.liberalcurrents.com/liberal-democracy-and-the-federal-system/) I definitely agree with your calculus of who should be getting more relative training lol
Liberal Democracy and the Federal System

The American federal system and the various Supreme Courts that have defended its boundaries impose firm limitations on what system-wide reforms are possible. To many it seems impossible to make any meaningful improvement to American governance without amending the Constitution, something that requires a massive supermajority. But American federalism need

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Show threadExtinction (our fate)Feb 23, 2023
@adamgurri @QasimRashid @paulgowder I'm not saying police need seven years of academic training, nor am I saying that lawyers need less than seven. I'm saying that police need more practical training than they're given and we need to be willing to both pay for that, and lay higher ethical and professional requirements on all of them. And that lawyers' educational costs are too high - to them - for what they get.
Show threadAdam GurriFeb 23, 2023
@aka_quant_noir @QasimRashid @paulgowder I think we're vehemently agreeing :)
Show threadExtinction (our fate)
@adamgurri @QasimRashid @paulgowder Possibly? lol
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