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In 1990 Roberts co-wrote the government's brief arguing that a new law criminalizing flag burning was in fact constitutional. But as a private attorney, he successfully helped Soldier of Fortune magazine fight a suit brought by a woman charging that the magazine had been negligent in running an...
ILLINOIS SENATOR BARACK OBAMA WROTE that the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in the rebellious states, "was more a military document than a clarion call for justice." Obama's piece failed to describe the complete historical context of the document. Lincoln's ability to end slavery was restricted by...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has found himself at the center of an imbroglio involving issues ranging from anti-Semitism to the First Amendment after he tried to discourage the University of California Press from publishing a forthcoming book about Israel.
“I think I’ve served the interest of the First Amendment,” Dershowitz responded. “In America, you just can’t get away with writing false stories about people.”
“They took it out because they knew that if the reference had appeared, I would have sued them, I would have owned the University of California Press, and the First Amendment would have been in fine shape,” said Dershowitz, who is a well known...