It's shocking how easy it is for a citizen with cursory knowledge of the law to "out-lawyer" a lawyer these days! I've done it! Any lawyer worth his/her salt knows every case is situational. Predicating a criminal act upon who wins an election is plain dumb!
You are correct. With the Internet, it's pretty much ended any mystification about the law and arguing legal cases. As we see in the news, and limited on money, but willing and you have the drive to do the research, you can take on these atrocious legal cases that we see the DOJ take to court as the target of their prosecution.
It's better than selling your house and being bankrupted paying lawyers. If you're going to plead guilty to crimes that you are innocent of because you lack funds and coercion, you might as well fight it anyways in court as your own lawyer.
Here's what you can find these days at your finger tips.
- Legalese. (It takes two seconds to find 60 seconds to get the gist)
- Statutes
- Court doctrines
- Holdings, stare decisis, court reasoning
- Local court rules
- Court procedures
- Case law, legal opinions...
The kooky liberal and political lawyers are agenda driven lawyers who do put forth and "argue" bad cases, and who attempt to bankrupt the defense. They are the worst. They heavily rely on activist liberal judges. I spent some time taking them on the Internet a few years ago. They're not all that good.