# Why lawyers matter.

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**Created:** [January 29, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-lawyers-matter/778500 "2017-01-29T14:45:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-lawyers-matter/778500/11 "2017-01-30T03:54:50Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> You’ve seen the pictures: lawyers sitting on the floors of public areas of airports, tapping on their laptops, producing habeas applications as quickly as possible to have the courts review the arbitrary detention of travellers caught up in the mess that the leader of the American regime has produced.
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> [The Lawyers Showed Up](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/01/lawyers_take_on_donald_trump_s_muslim_ban.html)
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> That is why lawyers matter.

> [@Dr\_Paprika](#):
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> Lawyers often do the right thing.

I happen not to agree with the substance of what they are doing. However, we have an adversarial system which under girds our country. Think Adams defending the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre.

Even though I think we should be holding off refugees, this is still lawyering at its best.

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