Lady Justice, in all her statuesque depictions, is shown wearing a blindfold. This represents the absolutely objective position justice takes after carefully considering all the evidence. She is blind to emotion, preference, impulse, and bias; all she knows is the law. Real-life justice, however, is upsettingly distant from this ideal. Justice is easily swayed by external factors, notably wealth, tipping the scales unfairly for the disadvantaged and generously rewarding those who can afford to circumvent any and all infringement. A quote from William Shakespeare’s King Lear considered alongside several suspicious occurrences from the recent decade identify the current state of what is left of justice. Lear’s damning yet accurate declaration
