Probable Cause

I suppose by now I should realize that one reason everyone hates lawyers is that they think them largely unnecessary. Like doctors and pilots. I mean, anyone can remove their own appendix or fly themselves across the country, right?  And lots of people — at least 50 to 60% of U.S. adults — can read.  So who needs lawyers when they can read the law for themselves?

Thankfully, Ray McEdward of Madera provides a shining example that being able to read does not a lawyer make.

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I did not want to write this post. Mirriam finally made me do it. She didn’t twist my arm or anything, although I suspect if she were in California and she wanted to, I might let her.

No, she added her voice to that of several others who have written about Arizona’s new law written by idiots to stop the unstoppable: immigration.

Legal or not, immigration is unstoppable. It’s how almost all of us got here.

And, if you really think about it, almost none of us got here legally. At least, not if you’re white.

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