The Nonsense Factory: The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System - Bruce Cannon Gibney
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A withering and witty examination of how the American legal system, burdened by complexity and untrammeled growth, fails Americans and threatens the rule of law itself, by the acclaimed author of A Generation of Sociopaths.
Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our correctional systems do not correct, and the rise of mandated arbitration has ushered in a shadowy system of privatized “justice.” Meanwhile, our legislators can’t even follow their own rules for making rules, while the rule of law mutates into a perpetual state of emergency. The legal system is becoming an incomprehensible farce. How did this happen?
In The Nonsense Factory, Bruce Cannon Gibney shows that over the past seventy years, the legal system has dangerously confused quantity with quality and might with legitimacy. As the law bloats into chaos, it staggers on only by excusing itself from the very commands it insists that we obey, leaving Americans at the mercy of arbitrary power. By examining the system as a whole, Gibney shows that the tragedies often portrayed as isolated mistakes or the work of bad actors — police misconduct, prosecutorial overreach, and the outrages of imperial presidencies — are really the inevitable consequences of law’s descent into lawlessness.
The first book to deliver a lucid, comprehensive overview of the entire legal system, from the grandeur of Constitutional theory to the squalid workings of Congress, The Nonsense Factory provides a deeply researched and witty examination of America’s state of legal absurdity, concluding with sensible options for reform.
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This post has 8 comments with rating of 5/5
September 26th, 2021
Capital stuff, cryotag.
Plea bargaining does prevent/circumvent trials, right enough.
The journey from elevated jurisprudence to actual practice represents one hell of a learning curve.
September 26th, 2021
I mean, the learning curve is basically realizing that the entire system is mostly corrupt and everyone mostly lies and no one cares. So the steepness of the curve largely depends on how much faith you had in humanity before you took up law. If you had any, then yeah, its pretty steep.
Or, as my former DA law professor used to say to cops he was putting on the stand “So… you gonna lie for me today?”
Which is all anyone really needs to know about the criminal justice system.
September 26th, 2021
Well, you never get justice, you only get law. It’s always been a compromised effort - a hardscrabble approximation.
Your pragmatic former DA law prof was using the old ruse of attempting to destroy credibility in advance, poisoning the well, queering the pitch, etc. It’s one tactic, I suppose.
September 26th, 2021
True that. Though it really seems that our adversarial system favors the wealthy to a greater extent than some alternatives might.
While that could be a tactic, in this case it was something he said in private to the officers in question. This was in Boston it the 90s. Convictions were a goal. If the person was actually guilty then so much the better, but that wasn’t a requirement or a matter of particular concern for anyone on the prosecutor’s side. “There’s a good chance they’re guilty of something, even if it isn’t the thing they’re being charged with.” as he put it in our crim pro and evidence classes.
Years of this kind of behavior has killed law enforcement credibility in many major cities. Chicago is an extreme example. As are the dropsy laws that have sprung up in more liberal cities who acknowledge the problem of evidence planting.
At the end of the day, people probably shouldn’t be policing other people. We’ve always been terrible at it. I’ll take an AI over the current system if it ever becomes available. Something that does better than people in a Stanford prison type experiment by preference.
September 26th, 2021
Being policed by the Terminator till Judgment Day? Can’t see any problem with that. Although some of us have a Judge Dredd fetish.
Hopefully we won’t have those AI algorithms which exhibit excessive amounts of bias, prejudice & discrimination. A little too judgmental.
Humans have to live with human error, I think. We’re flawed creatures, who occasionally get things almost right.
September 27th, 2021
Who creates the AI? Humans, thus they are just as prone to error. Even more so, since they “learn” from their mistakes by continuing to make them, ad infinitum. Leading to the bias and discrimination. :(
September 27th, 2021
That’s the connection, right enough.
September 28th, 2021
Good book.
The U.S. legal system is the best legal system money can buy.
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