“Judge Cannon is a bad judge and has made bad rulings and has favored Trump at every possible turn, number one,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Salon.

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That factor presents a “bigger problem” than Trump’s frequent delay tactics because she appears to have “lost control of the trial,” David Schultz, a Hamline University legal studies and political science professor, told Salon.

This dichotomy keenly illustrates the core problem of the legal profession in confronting the current court system and rise of fascism. Rahmani gets that judges, like everyone else, have personal motivations and may be corrupt, especially judges elevated for no good (legal) reason by the actual defendant in a trial.

Schultz, like many in the profession, are doggedly devoted to the idea that the system is good and fine and any problems that occur are just innocent mistakes by dedicated jurists in over their head. The idea that the justice system might be corrupt goes against their foundational belief system about the wheels of justice and higher callings that they preach to new students year after year, so they will inadvertently cape for those abusing it and resist calls to reform the system or delegitimize any portion of it.