Folks participate within the nationwide “Hands Off” anti-Trump protests in New York Metropolis, U.S., April 5, 2025.
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Attorneys are rallying throughout the USA on Legislation Day (Might 1), which was established by President Eisenhower in 1958 as a nationwide day to have a good time the rule of legislation.
Attorneys often do their talking for shoppers in courtrooms and on paper, however we’re taking to the streets as a result of the rule of legislation is underneath menace as by no means earlier than in our lifetimes. This isn’t about politics or which social gathering or particular person is within the White Home. It’s not about left or proper. It’s about proper or unsuitable.
We’re rallying as a result of judges are being vilified, focused, and harassed for doing their jobs with honesty, integrity, and good religion.
We’re rallying as a result of attorneys are being coerced to exchange their loyalty to shoppers and the Structure with loyalty to the President.
We’re rallying as a result of authorized U.S. residents are being snatched off the road by masked males in plain garments and unmarked automobiles, with out due course of or proof. Certainly one of these kidnapped people, Kilmer Abrego Garcia, a authorized U.S. resident convicted of no crimes, was despatched – by means of an “administrative error,” our authorities has stated – to a infamous jail in El Salvador.
We’re rallying as a result of the chief department is resisting a Supreme Courtroom ruling (with no dissents) in refusing to facilitate Garcia’s return house or to satisfactorily clarify to a court docket what steps it has taken to treatment this illegal motion.
It is best to rally with us as a result of these techniques are at all times utilized first to essentially the most unpopular and powerless in society.
It is best to rally with us as a result of these techniques have led to authoritarian rule in different international locations.
It is best to rally with us if, like us, you’re appalled by the bullying of the weakest by the strongest.
It is best to rally with us as a result of in the end, it could possibly be any one in every of us.
It is best to rally with us as a result of we insist on persevering with to reside in our constitutional democracy, in a rustic “of laws, not of men.”
Attorneys and non-lawyers alike: Let’s rally as a result of we’re patriots who love the USA of America.
The Legislation Day Rally for the Rule of Legislation in New York Metropolis will happen on Might 1 from 1 to 2 p.m. at Foley Sq. in Decrease Manhattan.
Bret Parker is Govt Director of the New York Metropolis Bar Affiliation.
