Today, Barbara McQuade was on WDET Stephen Henderson's show speaking upon the U.S. Department of Justice when someone called in, most promptly on cue with the conversation, to to ask, "How come no one has filed a grievance on Bill Barr to the American Bar Association?".
Allow me to respond:
Reggie Turner, "Legal Genius" (trademark pending) ABA President
A Detroit litigator has started his term Tuesday as the president-elect of the American Bar Association.
Reginald Turner, a law firm member of Clark Hill PLC, will serve as the president-elect of the ABA for one-year, the ABA said in a news release. He will become president of the association in August 2021.
“Being a lawyer means conducting yourself with professionalism, service and honor,” Turner said in a news release. “As I assume a leadership role in the ABA, I will honor those values and fulfill the obligation to pursue access to justice, which is true justice.”
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Turner has held many roles in the ABA by serving a chair of the ABA House of Delegates Rules & Calendar Committee, the Committee on Issues of Concern to the Profession and the Committee on Credentials and Admissions. He has also served as a Michigan delegate in the ABA House of Delegates.
At the beckoned request of Michigan, Michigan asked Michigan to do an analysis on how Michigan was doing.
If this sounds ridiculous, then you have just entered the Child Welfare System in Michigan. As this is extreme and emotionally harsh subject matter for most individuals, I shall attempt to keep it in the farcical manner in which it operates.
The views expressed herein have not been approved by the House of Delegates or the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association, and, accordingly should not be construed as representing the policy of the American Bar Association.
I shall assume the views were those who wish to keep their licenses to practice law in Michigan.
The report did have some positive recommendations to improve the system such has notifying the parents of the court date before the court date.
The survey was constructed with Occar's razor, when it reached the point where it states, "if you have not had counsel, please stop here." It would not behoove the respondents to continue detailing Constitutional violations at this juncture. Interestingly enough, there were termination of parental rights where the parents had no legal representation. Perhaps, the persons who generated the analysis did not think anyone would pay attention to it because the report was never approved by the American Bar Association.
In Wayne County, how is it one can get competent counsel to aggressively advocate for the parents, when the state has brought forth fraudulent allegations of abuse and neglect? The state, represented by the Attorney General, prosecutes the case, and in the same breath, provides for the appointment of legal counsel for the parents, sometimes. Better yet, if a parent is successful in having the case dismissed after being maliciously prosecuted, how can that parent seek legal remedy when legal aid is funded by the state?
If the parents are affluent enough to retain legal counsel, then how would they qualify to have a child placed in foster care when it is an entitlement program where one must meet the poverty means test?
Or should we ask what Michigan licensed attorney in his/her right mind would jeopardize a legal career by prosecuting state funded actors who perpetually engage in Medicaid fraud in Michigan Child Welfare in a Michigan Court?
