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It's been said. . .
“President Musharraf sought to justify his actions by citing the threat of terrorism. But shutting down a nation's lawful institutions of justice will hurt, not help, the fight against terrorism.”
ABA president William Neukom, calling for a return
to the rule of law in Pakistan after the dismissal
and arrest of the country's chief justice and the beating
and arrest of hundreds of protesting lawyers
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• •“Global solidarity of lawyers is needed because dictators can rise in any nation. No legal text furnishes security against power addicts who subvert even the noblest constitution to maximize their willfulness.”
Professor Ali Khan, a professor of law at Washburn
University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas, urging
lawyers everywhere to lend moral support
to protesting Pakistani lawyers
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• •“Unless our citizens can trust that judges will fairly resolve the disputes brought before our courts, and treat all citizens with dignity, our courts will lose the public's respect and confidence on which our legal system depends.”
Virginia Supreme Court Justice Barbara Keenan, in an order
removing a family court judge from the bench after he
ordered a woman to drop her pants to show evidence
of an injury, and decided a child visitation dispute by a coin toss