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but the President would not have had to dignify a rumor with a response. It was the entirely avoidable decision to have him testify under oath – not once

lecturing and writing about the corrosive influences of perjury on our legal system -- especially when committed by those whose job it is to enforce the law

the place to begin is at or near the top of the perjury hierarchy. If instead we continue deliberately to blind ourselves to pervasive police perjury and other equally dangerous forms of lying under oath

I had received a call from someone close to the White House giving me the phone number where Monica was staying and urging me to call her. I perceived a possible conflict of interest

or were they scapegoats of the cold war whose execution was a grave miscarriage of justice? That both are true is the intriguing argument of [the new book.]

and I wanted very much to talk to him. I thought he was getting terrible advice from his lawyers. I tried to write him a letter. I don’t know if he ever read the letter.

and every move should take into account the anticipated media coverage. This doesn’t mean you should make or refrain from making the right move because of the anticipated coverage

because the law treats famous people differently. Sometimes better. Sometimes worse. Never the same. It has been said that hard cases make bad law. So

a conflict arose between some leaders of the African American and Jewish communities. Most African American leaders were deeply committed to race-specific affirmative action programs that gave advantages to all Black applicants

as well as other applicants who are economically and culturally deprived; none of them would offend the Constitution. But what the school may not do

commenting that the “cynical” may say that “under a program such as Harvard’s one may accomplish covertly what Davis concedes it does openly.” Justice Powell nowhere disputed this. His answer seems to be that even if both programs produce the same result

when the words “under God” were being added to the pledge of allegiance. The Yeshivas I went to as a kid were very patriotic. We recited the pledge at assemblies

with whom he'd tangled in a previous case. ""This is a judge who doesn't understand the difference between a year and a decade

who surely would have imposed the same sentence without referring to his religion. The new judge eventually reduced the sentence to 8 years and Bakker was released after serving 4.5 years—quite a reduction from the 45 years originally imposed by Maximum Bob.

she was deeply embarrassed by what she had done and has not repeated the errors of her way during her subsequent years of service on the Court.