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Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.
Alan Dershowitz
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Alan Dershowitz
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 1
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All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.
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All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.
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Such 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.
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The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
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