Ideas Don't Desert You; Ideas Aren't Treasonous

Imagine A Legal System In Which Lawyers Were Equated With The Clients They Defended And Were Condemned For Representing Controversial Or Despised Clients.

Individuals Have The Right To Pick And Choose Which Expressions To Condemn, Which To Praise And Which To Say Nothing About. Governments, However, Must Remain Neutral As To The Content Of Expression. And Governments Must Protect The Rights Of All To Express Even The Most Despicable Of Views.

When The Jews Were Being Persecuted By The Nazis In 1944 We Passed The War Refugee Act, Which Focused On Rescuing Jews, A Religious Group. But If The Religious Group Is The Subject Of The Persecution Based On Their Religion, It's Perfectly Ok For A First Amendment-bound Society To Emphasize Their Rescue, Just As It Is Perfectly Ok To Emphasize The Fact That Many, If Not All Of The Perpetrators Of Islamic Terrorism, Come From Countries With A History Of Supporting Terrorism.

It Is Difficult To Offend A New Yorker.

I Was Critical Of Race-based Affirmative Action Early On In My Career And I've Changed My Mind. And I've Publicly Acknowledged That I Was Wrong.