I Can't Find Anything In The Constitution

In Representing Criminal Defendants - Especially Guilty Ones - It Is Often Necessary To Take The Offensive Against The Government: To Put The Government On Trial For Its Misconduct. In Law, As In Sports, The Best Defense Is Often A Good Offense. The Courtroom Oath - To Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth - Is Applicable Only To Witnesses... Because The American Justice System Is Built On A Foundation Of Not Telling The Whole Entire Truth.

It Is Difficult To Offend A New Yorker.

I Have Made A Career Out Of Arguing That We Shouldn't Be Criminalizing Political Differences. I've Made A Career Out Of Arguing That The Grand Jury Is An Abusive Institution. I Have Made A Career Out Of Arguing That We Shouldn't Stretch And Expand The Criminal Law. I'm Not Going To Change It Because You Think These Are Abnormal Times. When Thomas Jefferson Told The Justice Department That They Had To Prosecute Aaron Burr, And That He Was Going To Have The Chief Justice Impeached Unless He Found Aaron Burr Guilty, Those Were Special Times Too.

I Read In The Newspaper That The Catholic Church Finally Decided That It Had Been Theologically Improper To Try To Convert The Jews. Whoops! Sorry For All Those Inquisitions, Crusades, And Autos-da-fe. Previous Popes Were Wrong - Infallible, Perhaps, But Wrong.

Everybody Says They're Opposed To Torture. But Everyone Would Do It Personally If They Knew It Could Save The Life Of A Kidnapped Child Who Had Only Two Hours Of Oxygen Left Before Death. And It Would Be The Right Thing To Do.