He doesn't have to do a good job. He just has to go through the motions. If the writing is on the wall for a case dealing with something really stupid, he (or one of his minions) can simply stack up the information and hand if over to the judge and jury, and let it be judged on its own merits.

I mean, look at how badly the D.C. rep did when arguing D.C. vs Hellerman in front of the Supreme Court. It really was a Keystone Cops moment. He set a new bar for how incompetent you can be in front of a judge and media.

I have unfortunately had the chance to experience how Charleston SC treats Transwomen who have been arrested. Overall I have to give them an 80% grade. Everyone waits in the same holding area, a rather large waiting room with 2 televisions mounted on the ceiling. There are holding cells along the sides for those who need segregation for violence or whatever reason, clear plastic walls to ensure nothing untoward happens.

Seating is segregated by sex to a degree. Women had thier own 1/3 of the room... and as a transwoman I was seated with them but a little separate. Had I been post op I would simply have been treated like any other woman(I asked).

In the course of processing they offered "Administrative Segregation" which basically means I get a cell to myself. Its solitary confinement, cruel in some ways but far far better than putting me in with the male population. The other female prisoners stood up for me when they took me away, they were angry that i was being put into the male isolation cells.

They made me wear the male jumpsuit and boxer shorts(I did manage to not hand over one of my thongs while dressing out so i didn't have to totally humiliate myself.). The female uniform is pants and a top... trust me, peeing in a jumpsuit is a whole variety of effed up. Even the COs(Correctional Officers... Guards but don't call them that) were like "Now tell me again why we have a woman in the men's cells?"

All in all... they tried to minimize the humiliation. I was searched by a female officer, with another woman in the room per standards, In every possible way they recognized my gender status.

I think the reason I was in there was quite stupid, as did the judge in the end. As much as having to go to jail overnight can be said to be a not negative experience this one was, although they did have to take extra time to figure out exactly what to do with me.

I'm sure its different elsewhere, I know many others have had horrible experiences. I don't wish it on anyone... no matter how much they try to detraumatize it having cuffs clapped on you and being stuffed into the back of a police car is a seriously messed up experience. Horrifically uncomfortable too... there's just no way to get comfortable with your hands cuffed behind you in that narrow space. For someone like me add fairly severe claustrophobia into the mix... I spent the whole trip in meditation trying to just not freak out, especially in the van where its partitioned into small compartments.