The American perception that the justice system is broken is well founded. It is an undisputed fact that the equity and justice system in America has evolved into a dominant lawyer culture with an eye on the giant business opportunity selling legal services. This computes to one lawyer for every 300 people while the rest of the world have one lawyer for every 24,000 people. Washington, D.C has one lawyer for every 25 people with two orchestrating that scene from the White House. It is also an undisputed fact that lawyers have taken over American government.
Lawyers do indeed totally dominate one branch of government-the American judicial system.
All lawyers are officers of the court. All judges at the district court level and above are lawyers with a robe on. All prosecutors are lawyers. The system itself is lawyer self regulated. The other two branches of government are approaching lawyer monopoly.