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L A S T   W O R D

Disenfranchised by Lawyers

By Daniel J. Popeo

Voters may have rejected their ideological agendas at the polls, but the elitist "public interest" movement's permanent campaign continues, and is succeeding. This endless campaign seeks to legislate radical policy ideas not through the democratic process, but through the unaccountable legal system. It is led and staffed by a virtual shadow government of seasoned activists and lawyers drawn from hundreds of well-funded special interest groups and plaintiffs' law firms.

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