Floyd Abrams
Floyd Abrams
Floyd Abramsis an American attorney at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. He is an expert on constitutional law, and many arguments in the briefs he has written before the United States Supreme Court have been adopted as United States Constitutional interpretative law as it relates to the First Amendment and free speech. He is the William J. Brennan Jr. Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
CountryUnited States of America
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We would be defending that. Mr. Risen did a serious and solid job. He has made no apology.
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She has other sources and was very concerned about the possibility of having to reveal those sources or going back to jail because of them.
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She is there (in jail) for a reason. At this time, the reason is still there. She made a promise and, unless properly released from her promise by her source, she has no choice but to continue to take the position that she's taking.
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On more than one occasion, Mr. Tate asked me for a recitation of what Ms. Miller would say. I did not provide one.
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I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, self-effacing, overly modest person who left many flashier lawyers in his wake as he persuaded judges and juries alike that what he said could be trusted and should carry the day.
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The story wasn't there, ... It was a mistake. It was a bad mistake, and CNN has apologized for it, as I think they should.
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Telephone records are the extension of the journalist herself. Telephone records are the embodiment of the speech of the journalist and require the same protection.
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Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely have agreed to stop it long ago.
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Everything is being dropped. There is no more litigation about this.
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A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting speech about elections?' But that's what we're doing, and that's what the legislation that passed yesterday does.
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coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House.
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I know that the jail stay, which is the longest of any journalist in American history, was certainly not extended for any reason at all, ... and was served in the service of protecting her source.
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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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, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.