What The United States Has To Do

I Don't Think The Law Exists To Arrive At The Truth. If It Did, We Wouldn't Have Exclusionary Rules, We Wouldn't Have Presumptions Of Innocence, We Wouldn't Have Proof Beyond Reasonable Doubt. There's An Enormous Difference Between The Role Of Truth In Law And The Role Of Truth In Science. In Law, Truth Is One Among Many Goals.

There Is A Paranoid Streak In American Life. Radio Talk Show Hosts Tend To Foment That Paranoid Streak In American Life.

Freedom Of Speech Means Freedom For Those Who You Despise, And Freedom To Express The Most Despicable Views. It Also Means That The Government Cannot Pick And Choose Which Expressions To Authorize And Which To Prevent.

In Today's Distorted World Of 'human Rights,' Truth Takes A Back Seat To Ideology, And False Claims - Especially Those That 'support' Radical Ideologies - Persist Even After They Have Been Exposed.

If You're A Prosecutor, And You Believe The Defendant Is Guilty, You Only Talk About Ultimate Truth, But Not Intermediate Truth. If You're The Defense Attorney, You Care Deeply About Intermediate Truth, But You Tend To Neglect Ultimate Truth.