Bonus Question- if you won the case, why couldn’t you then represent others?
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An individual has the right to a qualified legal defense of some kind, but that also means the individual has the right to forego that qualified legal defense, regardless of how much you know about the law. That is your right because you can’t be expected to give up some amount of free speech to a third party to speak for you at a trial.
If somehow you did win the case, that doesn’t mean you are qualified by government standards to practice law. There are many ways a person defending his or herself could win a case without knowing a single thing about the law.
The same can be said about medicine – you can disinfect a wound, but that doesn’t make you a qualified surgeon.
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