The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
As I watched event in Pakistan over the weekend I noted that a huge number of lawyers put their careers, bodies and lives on the line in protest of an obvious usurpation of power. I keep thinking that we’d never see a similar spectacle in the US. Not that we would have a naked power grab by the executive, but that the legal profession would have the balls to lay it on the line in support of constitutional democracy.
