If you looked deeply into the Murdaugh murder trial, you learned that it was not just about a small town lawyer shooting his wife and son. It was also about how the plaintiff’s bar-type lawyers in a small South Carolina county kept hidden the nefarious and outright illegal actions of their own, Alex Murdaugh and his family, for decades.
Prominent lawyer Murdaugh stole from clients and his partners, stole his maid’s insurance money, lied to everyone, and ultimately killed half his family. For a generation, other lawyers covered for him and maybe participated with him in financial shenanigans so as to not mess up their good ole boy legal honey hole. Not only his partners, but fellow plaintiff’s bar lawyers, law enforcement and the powerful were possibly complicit in this tale. None of these folks came out looking good in the nationally televised true crime saga. Murdaugh only thought he could get away with murder because other lawyers in his bar cabal covered for him.
In 2023, Murdaugh did for South Carolina lawyers what the Boston Strangler did for door-to-door salesmen in the 1960s.
Any time you get that many lawyers working together, for example in that small South Carolina county, it is a mess and becomes all about them. This explains the U.S. Congress, where about 23 percent of elected Democrats are lawyers. Many of the worst among them, like Rep Jerry Nadler (D-NY), are plaintiff’s attorneys. Lawyers cover for each other, realizing early on that a client uses them maybe once in a lifetime, but they work with other lawyers every day.
An older law partner in a firm and a young partner are standing in the hallway talking. A hot young paralegal walks by and the younger partner says, “I would really like to screw her.” The older partner shrugs his shoulders in confusion and says, “Out of what?”
The whole Murdaugh case was about missing money and mysterious deaths. It sounded like either a John Grisham novel or a biography of the Clintons.
Murdaugh should have gotten some slick California lawyer like Johnnie Cochran or Robert Kardashian to defend him. They would be able to cite the case of The People v. O.J., which established the precedent that double murder is legal in California for pseudo- celebrities.
Not only are a near majority of Democrats in Congress lawyers, so are Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Kamala Harris, Bill and Hillary Clinton and, of course, the Obamas. If you consider the fundamental training of lawyers, it is not to solve problems like businesspeople are incentivized to do, but to complicate and litigate — for as long as they can and by the hour.
If problems get solved quickly, lawyers do not make money. They bill by the hour, not the result. Their incentives are at cross purposes with quick and efficient results. The result is “the Swamp” in Washington.
Every time there is a problem in America, lawyers in Congress feel they have to make a new law. That seldom makes the situation better except for lawyers, who layer law upon law until no one knows what is really legal or what is not. That is where the Justice Department comes in. If it determines that you are a Republican, even the most archaic laws are enforced against you. If you are Democrats like the Clintons and Hunter Biden, almost no laws are applied to you.
I am not a fan of many lawyers. Clearly there are good ones but, like South Carolina and Congress, when too many get in cahoots with each other, it is not good for the rest of us. And the reason almost all plaintiffs’ attorneys are Democrats is that they have the same business model: they benefit from conjuring up “victimhood.” Neither Democrats nor plaintiff’s attorneys do well when we do well. They need victims.
Look at the advertisements around the class action suits in the Carolinas about Camp Lejeune. Lawyers scare up plaintiff clients with relentless ads on TV so they can collect money for themselves; they ask if you got sick from the water while stationed at Camp Lejeune. I tried to get some of that sweet Camp Lejeune money, but it turned out I was stationed at Camp Mesothelioma.
