Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.
Alan DershowitzSuch technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had the capacity to do so.
Alan DershowitzI will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.
Alan DershowitzIt simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
Alan DershowitzIt'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.
Alan DershowitzOur First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.
Alan Dershowitz