Slight nitpick here. “The law” does not REQUIRE you to have a lawyer. You may represent yourself if you so choose, unless you are a corporation. What you do have, via the 6th Amendment of the Constitution. is the RIGHT to be represented by counsel, as opposed to NOT having the right to be so represented.
Back in the bad old days, you did not have the right to counsel so if you were in trouble, it was just you against the officers of the court. Guess who usually won.
I love this, thank you. I haven’t contributed much for a long time, and I’m thankful that others are keeping this thread going. Thank you stupid Republicans, thank you smart Dopers!
Clearly. It was shorthand, used specifically because it is so well-known and exactly states “right to an attorney”.
And we’re back to me being unintentionally dense. What is it about “universal healthcare” that is mutually exclusive from, say, single-payer (beyond the fact that the latter is just one implementation of the former)? Under a single-payer system, would the government be absorbing the cost paying for one’s medical bills when the patient can afford it? (I think that’s the abstracted converse of your point; if not, please correct me.)
Here we go again. Our boy, ex-Senator and Presidential want-to-be, Ricky Santorum is so enamored with reestablishing a national policy of torture that he has thrown all reason and truthfulness out the window.
Senator McCain has said that torture did not produce any information that lead to the death of Osama and that the practice is generally a bad idea. Now our boy Santorum decides, and worse, publicly says that John McCain just doesn’t understand torture and just how effective an interrogation tool it is.
He must be talking about some other Senator McCain, not the guy who spent four or five years actually being tortured – because that guy knows more about torture than ever occurred to the ex-senator’s addled brain after viewing any number of episodes of “Gay Boys in Bondage” or “24.”
I can handle politicians, just spare me the ego enhanced idiots.
Speaking of Rick Santorum, I have to say he’s got the best bumper stickers of any candidate running.
Incidentally, have there been any reports of the Catholic Church denying him Communion for supporting torture, as they’ve been known to do in the case of politicians who support a woman’s right to have an abortion or the right of same-sex couples to marry? Or, as I suspect, is the Church hierarchy pretty much solely obsessed with those two issues?
If he runs, gonna have to see a more pictures of his latest wife, who truly creeps me out. I know she doesn’t rise in the night to feed on the blood of the living. I know that.
A guy who was in the House of Representatives for 20 years, starting more than 30 years ago, is trying to portray himself as an outsider against Obama? And weren’t they criticizing Obama for his inexperience just three years ago?
Iowa is always a lot of fun in the lead up to the party caucuses. It has started a bit earlier than usual this cycle. All sorts of candidates sitting on straw bales and cuddling pigs.
Our GOP however has pulled a real boner --hired The Donald to be the keynote speaker at the annual fundraiser without arraigning a backup in the event their guy pulled a Pailin. He did. Their stuck. Annual Lincoln Day (in June?) canceled. Here’s the story: The Des Moines Register - Des Moines, Iowa, News and Sports
Newt in town, Santorum will be here next week. Either of them is a mockable as Trump. Stupid and shortsighted.
