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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
All pro bono is "subsidized" by paying customers. Are you seriously trying to say it isn't?
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Only the expenses. And even that indirectly.
Whether I spend 2 hours or 200 hours doing pro bono this year has no effect on my paying client's bill.
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There are thousands of indigent and/or unrepresented defendants out there and that any of these firms* could step up and represent.
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Which they do.
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Rather, they are making the deliberate choice to pick up a political football and meddle in wartime affairs.
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Some of us think that questions of the appropriate exercise of police power, and executive usurpation of judicial power, are particularly important topics.
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*Pillsbury Winthrop; Jenner & Block; Hunton & Williams; Alston & Bird; Cutler Pickering; Weil Gotshal; Paul Weiss Rifkin; Covington & Burling; Mayer Brown; Pepper Hamilton; Perkins Cole; Fulbright Jaworski;Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, and Venable.
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You don't have a complete list.
