Nancy Grace: Defending the Bill of Rights is like working at Auschwitz

CNN's ratings star unloads this in a USA Today profile:

CNN Headline News dynamo Nancy Grace has no love for defense attorneys — especially those who know that their clients have killed people but use every possible legal maneuver to get them off or get them better deals. In other words, for doing their jobs.

"What they do is entirely acceptable under the Constitution and the court of law, but I just don't personally like it," Grace says. She quickly notes that her best friend is Renee Rockwell, a defense lawyer and regular on Nancy Grace.

But, she adds, "when people say defense lawyers are just doing their jobs and are necessary for our system, you could say that about a lot of people who claim they're just doing their jobs. You could say that about the guards at Auschwitz."

I am not really surprised. I just expected he to be a little more careful in expressing her disdain for a the idea of a fair trial. Someone like Grace was in at the start of most lynch mobs. We despise lynch law but CNN somehow gives this woman a talk show.

And shouldn't attorneys be held to a little higher standard when it comes to these kind of outbursts?

More on Grace here and here.