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TopicThe Justice Department has effectively shuttered an Obama-era office
s0nicfan
02/01/18 4:09:31 PM
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Antifar posted...
s0nicfan posted...
Wait... don't people already have a right to an attorney, to be provided by the state if they can't afford one?

On paper, yes. In practice...
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/07/513903493/la-governor-sued-over-states-alleged-failure-to-provide-lawyers-to-poor-defendan

https://knpr.org/knpr/2017-11/aclu-says-nevada-isnt-defending-states-rural-poor


Honestly I'd much rather people take states to task for failing to provide constitutional rights to their citizens than to create extra agencies for the sole purpose of filling in the cracks.

It's like California creating a legal loophole to let you donate your taxes to avoid the write off cap because otherwise their taxes are too high when they could just, you know, lower their taxes.
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