Quotes About Floyd Abrams

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.

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 or even against the government and try to block them.

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

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 or even against the government and try to block them.

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.