Comment on How Conservatives Learned to Love Free Lawyers for the Poor

Alysia Santo, Politico
Sun, 09/24/2017 - 4:22am

How Conservatives Learned to Love Free Lawyers for the Poor

Christy Perry, a Republican state representative and co-owner of a gun shop in Boise, regularly travels with her husband to gun shows to sell their wares. Voters come to her booth so often that her husband jokingly plunked a sign next to the AR-15s: “Gun talk only. No politics.” A couple of years ago, Perry began broaching a subject with her customers that was mostly unfamiliar to them: the nation’s crumbling system of free legal defense for the poor.

 

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