When it comes to attorney bar disciplinary action, your ideology matters. If you’re a progressive, far more leniency is given. If you’re conservative, you need to be on the straight and narrow—and even then, that often does not insulate you. In the modern bipolar political system, there are two sides and two sets of rules. 

It is no secret that the further down you get into both federal and state government, those who populate government offices tend to lean progressive. For instance, a study of the New York Department of Education found that 79% of their employees voted Democratic. 

While this information is hard to prove in most instances—as many states prohibit inquiring into an employee’s political affiliation—there are clues. The biggest clues come from the actions of the state agencies themselves. And, there is no example more clear than recent actions of the New York Attorney Grievance Committee.

On behalf of the Center to Advance Security in America—a government watchdog organization—I filed a bar complaint against New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill after two........

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