Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.