As a result, law has been completely perverted from what it was intended to be – the guarantor of an equal playing field which would legitimize outcome inequalities – into its precise antithesis: a weapon used by the most powerful to protect their ill-gotten gains, strengthen their unearned prerogatives, and ensure ever-expanding opportunity inequality.Arthur Silber is fond of pointing out that policy which fails to meet the goals of its creators is quickly modified. Glenn's choice of words is inappropriate. The intentions he attributes are how law is often described, but talk is cheap. Law has always been a weapon of the powerful.
- Glenn Greenwald (emphasis mine)
Otherwise, right on!
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