The Importance of Upholding the Constitution
Jan 25, 2022 18:52:46 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Jan 25, 2022 18:52:46 GMT -5
The Importance of Upholding the Constitution, the Right to Counsel and the Presumption of Innocence
by Alan M. Dershowitz
January 25, 2022 at 6:00 pm
[W]hen law professors such as Cornell University's Michael linkDorf -- who is an acolyte, water-carrier and co-author of America's most prominent constitutional hypocrite, Professor Laurence Tribe -- set out to defame... anyone, for a principled representation of unpopular defendants, it becomes clear, and alarming, how much trouble the Constitution is in.
Dorf apparently does not remember the principle often attributed to Voltaire: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
He also deliberately omits the fact that my "oeuvre" includes representing half of my clients on a pro bono basis and that many of my cases have focused on the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment and the death penalty.
[T]he reader is given no idea even of how many people were included in this admittedly "unscientific poll," or how they were selected
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by Alan M. Dershowitz
January 25, 2022 at 6:00 pm
[W]hen law professors such as Cornell University's Michael linkDorf -- who is an acolyte, water-carrier and co-author of America's most prominent constitutional hypocrite, Professor Laurence Tribe -- set out to defame... anyone, for a principled representation of unpopular defendants, it becomes clear, and alarming, how much trouble the Constitution is in.
Dorf apparently does not remember the principle often attributed to Voltaire: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
He also deliberately omits the fact that my "oeuvre" includes representing half of my clients on a pro bono basis and that many of my cases have focused on the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment and the death penalty.
[T]he reader is given no idea even of how many people were included in this admittedly "unscientific poll," or how they were selected
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