Judiciary Impartial?

"The probability that we fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

- Abraham Lincoln

Where are the Lincoln lawyers and judges?  Where are the judicial checks on abuses by government (ie. abrupt economic confiscations and redistributions -- see Is Justice Alive and Well)?  Why have we abandoned the only real basis for law--moral absolutes like justice and morality?  Where are the judicial watchdogs?  Perhaps it was a mistake to require attorneys to attend three years of law school and pass a bar exam to practice law?  After all, Mr. Lincoln was licensed through homestudy.  The required investment of time and money in law school and the wage differential an attorney may anticipate coupled with the peer pressure to profess progressivism (see my post "On Ascent") and to advance economic interpretations of the law (see my post "Is Justice Alive and Well?"), might suffice to coopt one to a conformity that is adverse to the rule of law itself--a conformity that enables the executive to run roughshod over constitutional rights.