The longstanding rap on lawyers, as Sir Thomas More, in Utopia — a description of an ideal society based on reason — said in 1516, is “lawyers (are considered)…as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.” Except Mississippi Justice Court ranks, most judges are lawyers. At all levels, judges are selected based on the presumption that they will be just, fair, impartial, unbiased and equitable in all matters of the law and the judiciary, and “nonpartisan!”
That is philosophically and theoretically true. Realistically, “actions speak louder than words.” As Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887, said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” So, judicial accountability is “always” perforce.
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