Amendment Quote by Floyd Abrams

“I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.”

Floyd Abrams

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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role…

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The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad…

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I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.

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CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way,…

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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment,…

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My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I…

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Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that,…

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I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free speech and…

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I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost…

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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that…

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