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Alan Dershowitz Is Lying To You [PopeHat]

Quoting professors about law is particularly risky, if your ...
ebony nowag national
  12/18/18
The author seems like a moron. The issue in the cases to whi...
Frum wine den
  12/18/18
https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1075233089452941312
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  12/18/18
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  12/18/18
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Date: December 18th, 2018 10:19 PM
Author: ebony nowag national

Quoting professors about law is particularly risky, if your aim is an accurate and informative discussion of free speech law. If you call a physics professor and ask them what will happen if you drop your pencil, and why, he or she will say "it will fall, because of gravity." There is a relatively low chance that the professor will tell you "well, maybe nothing will happen" because he or she harbors the belief that the current gravitic regime is unfair and otherwise problematical. But when you call a professor of law, or political science, or journalism, and ask them a question about whether some controversial speech is protected by the First Amendment, there is an unacceptably high probability that you will get a quote expressing what the professor thinks the law ought to be. Sometimes the professor will flag a statement as an argumentative one, sometimes not. Moreover, some professors . . . . how can one put this delicately? Some law professors' views on how a court is likely to rule on an issue are untainted by exposure to actual courts.

https://www.popehat.com/2018/12/18/alan-dershowitz-is-lying-to-you/

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Date: December 18th, 2018 10:48 PM
Author: Frum wine den

The author seems like a moron. The issue in the cases to which he cites is whether false statements made to the FBI can still be material even if the FBI knew the statement was false and even if the false statement didn't mislead the FBI. That's not what Dershowitz is talking about. The "and only asked him the question in order to give him an opportunity to lie" part of Dershowitz's statement completely distinguishes it from the cases cited in the article.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4158648&forum_id=2#37430745)



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Date: December 18th, 2018 10:37 PM
Author: ebony nowag national

https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1075233089452941312

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4158648&forum_id=2#37430698)



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Date: December 18th, 2018 10:40 PM
Author: multi-colored cyan senate



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Date: December 18th, 2018 10:51 PM
Author: Buff electric furnace menage

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Date: December 18th, 2018 10:38 PM
Author: bisexual costumed kitty philosopher-king

the news media do an atrocious job of covering the legal system

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4158648&forum_id=2#37430705)