A Good Lawyer Knows How To Shut

Law Is An Imperfect Profession In Which Success Can Rarely Be Achieved Without Some Sacrifice Of Principle. Thus All Practicing Lawyers -- And Most Others In The Profession -- Will Necessarily Be Imperfect, Especially In The Eyes Of Young Idealists. There Is No Perfect Justice, Just As There Is No Absolute In Ethics. But There Is Perfect Injustice, And We Know It When We See It.

Censorship Laws Are Blunt Instruments, Not Sharp Scalpels. Once Enacted, They Are Easily Misapplied To Merely Unpopular Or Only Marginally Dangerous Speech.

I Believe That If Israel Were To Put An End To The Settlements In The West Bank Tomorrow, As It Did In Gaza, There Would Still Be Reluctance On The Part Of The Palestinian Authority To Recognize Israel's Right To Exist As A Jewish Secular Democracy.

I've Written Important Articles On Prevention, On The Concept Of The Preventive State, How The Law Is Moving Much More In An Area Of Trying To Prevent Wrongs Than Trying To Deal With Them After They Occur. That Will Be My Academic/intellectual Legacy.

But The United States Is Neither A Christian Nation Nor The Exclusive Home Of Any Particular Religious Group. Non-christians Are Not Guests. We Are As Much Hosts As Any Mayflower-descendant Protestant. It Is Our Home As Well As Theirs. And In A Home With So Many Owners, There Can Be No Official Sectarian Prayer. That Is What The First Amendment Is All About, And The First Act By The New Administration Was In Defiance Of Our Constitution.