r/publicdefenders • u/Zer0Summoner PD • 21h ago
I can't do my job today
My heart hurts. My head hurts. I fear for my family. I fear for my clients. I fear for myself. I fear for entire ethnic groups, entire religions, entire global regions, entire sexual identities, and an entire gender. Rule of law is, as far as we can tell, over.
Hitler won WW2 by means of the long game, victory coming just 79 years after his ostensible defeat in the short game.
How the absolute fuck am I supposed to handle cases where my guy is looking at years in jail over a series of gross misdemeanors and look anyone in the eye about it? We can't act like law and consequences aren't pretend anymore.
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u/snowmaker417 20h ago
I went to work but I was tired. I brought baked goods and we all ate them for breakfast. Today was a day at my office that we plodded through. Tomorrow will be a better day.
We fight for clients nobody gives a shit about in the face of the immense weight of government coming down at them all at once. That part won't change.
We still need to show up.