Thanks for posting this.
Looks like lawyers and lawyer-politicians have subverted another sacred principle on which our nation was founded.
Just as an aside, I recently testified as an expert witness in a wrongful death case. A team of opposing attorneys, bullies all, spent seven hours at the initial deposition assaulting my character and credentials in a deeply disturbing style.
In addition, their questions were worded - almost invariably - in a forced-choice manner that entirely precluded any possibility that I could render “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” that I had sworn to tell.
I pointed this out. The attorney interrogating me at the time replied, “I’m in charge here. You understand? I ask the question and you answer either ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. That’s how the game is played, and you will play it that way.”
I bowed out of the case, and will never do court work again.