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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 freedom of the press and the essentiality and centrality in our lives of really giving broad protection to freedom of speech and freedom of the press in America. I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.

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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…

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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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I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause …

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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as …

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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 or harmful o…

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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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I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all…

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I can tell you, having been in court today in New York, that the requests for the video outtakes have been dropped.

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