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pnwmom

(108,980 posts) Mon Jul 8, 2019, 07:05 PM Jul 2019

Former Harvard profs Tribe and Dershowitz on opposite sides on Epstein press coverage.

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Laurence Tribe
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Press access to criminal proceedings is a core First Amendment right. My first Supreme Court argument established that: Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia 448 U.S.555 (1980). Any civil libertarian should know that.

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Former Harvard profs Tribe and Dershowitz on opposite sides on Epstein press coverage. (Original Post) pnwmom Jul 2019 OP

Dershowitz has a lot of reasons to suppress public access to court testimony lapfog_1 Jul 2019 #1

It is being sloppily reported in some places that AD wanted the judge to unseal all the records pnwmom Jul 2019 #2

The underlying Miami Herald article is written by the indispensable Julie K. Brown gratuitous Jul 2019 #3

OMFG what a shitshow of corruption and malfeasance. Voltaire2 Jul 2019 #4

Good points made, but I think it runs up against secret addendums on every law in that... SWBTATTReg Jul 2019 #5

ANd if you are a billionaire repub, the law doesnt' apply to you on two counts. Amaryllis Jul 2019 #6

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)

1. Dershowitz has a lot of reasons to suppress public access to court testimony

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2019, 07:09 PM

Jul 2019

very little of it having to do with his client.

pnwmom

(108,980 posts)

2. It is being sloppily reported in some places that AD wanted the judge to unseal all the records

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 8, 2019, 07:11 PM

Jul 2019

in the old case. In reality, all AD wanted unsealed were some documents he thought would disprove one of the victims' claims against him.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

3. The underlying Miami Herald article is written by the indispensable Julie K. Brown

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2019, 07:13 PM

Jul 2019

As the kids say, read the whole thing.

Voltaire2

(13,063 posts)

4. OMFG what a shitshow of corruption and malfeasance.

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #3)

Mon Jul 8, 2019, 07:27 PM

Jul 2019

Dershowitz is screwed. I wonder how many others are now also screwed with NY case.

SWBTATTReg

(22,143 posts)

5. Good points made, but I think it runs up against secret addendums on every law in that...

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2019, 07:34 PM

Jul 2019

if you're a billionaire, the law doesn't apply to you. This seems this way (I know that this isn't how the law is written, but I've seen too many 'rich' people get away with stuff w/ a slap on the wrist, e.g., look at the sentence E rec'd for his FL offenses...

Hopefully, I am thinking that being in the public eye via associations w/ rump, this won't simply fade / go away...Justice needs to be served up.

Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)

6. ANd if you are a billionaire repub, the law doesnt' apply to you on two counts.

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #5)

Mon Jul 8, 2019, 08:29 PM

Jul 2019

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