The propensity of state bar associations to coddle perpetrators of professional misconduct, when they're supposed to be disciplining them, is a long-discussed breach of the social contract. Donald Trump henchman Rudy Giuliani pushed misrepresentations in numerous courts about the integrity of the 2020 election, confident that it would take years of such lies before the bar authorities would even begin to think about moves to revoke his license.
California is a venue where bar oversight corruption is now playing out in public view. One offshoot of the story involves my efforts, under the state's Public Records Act, to liberate information in the cover-up of the 2014 death of University of California football player Ted Agu.
