Individuals participate within the nationwide “Hands Off” anti-Trump protests in New York Metropolis, U.S., April 5, 2025.
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Legal professionals are rallying throughout the US on Legislation Day (Could 1), which was established by President Eisenhower in 1958 as a nationwide day to have a good time the rule of legislation.
Legal professionals 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 beneath menace as by no means earlier than in our lifetimes. This isn’t about politics or which get together or particular person is within the White Home. It’s not about left or proper. It’s about proper or improper.
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. One in every of these kidnapped people, Kilmer Abrego Garcia, a authorized U.S. resident convicted of no crimes, was despatched – via an “administrative error,” our authorities has mentioned – to a infamous jail in El Salvador.
We’re rallying as a result of the manager department is resisting a Supreme Courtroom ruling (with no dissents) in refusing to facilitate Garcia’s return dwelling or to satisfactorily clarify to a court docket what steps it has taken to treatment this illegal motion.
You need to rally with us as a result of these ways are all the time utilized first to probably the most unpopular and powerless in society.
You need to rally with us as a result of these ways have led to authoritarian rule in different nations.
You need to rally with us if, like us, you might be appalled by the bullying of the weakest by the strongest.
You need to rally with us as a result of eventually, it might be any one among us.
You need 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.”
Legal professionals and non-lawyers alike: Let’s rally as a result of we’re patriots who love the US of America.
The Legislation Day Rally for the Rule of Legislation in New York Metropolis will happen on Could 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.
