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uld be able to use the First Amendment as an excuse for maliciously and dishonestly attacking public figures, as he has so often done.” In the famous Skokie case, in which I supported the right of neo-Nazis to march through a heavily Jewish Chicago suburb, one of the judges argued that allowing Nazis to m
earlier books that touch on aspects of my public life. The Best Defense dealt with my earliest cases during the first decade of my professional life. Chutzpah covered my Jewish causes and cases. Reversal of Fortune and Reasonable Doubts each dealt with one specific case (Von Bulow and O.J. Simpson). I will
legal rubric of “clear and present danger.” Early in my career I was involved in both of those types of cases. In the famous neo-Nazi march through Skokie, Illinois, the Nazi thugs deliberately decided to march—with anti-Semitic chants, signs and uniforms—through a Jewish community with a large number o
ded that the only reason he wasn’t in court was because my client had murdered him. Our argument, they claimed, paralleled the classic definition of “Chutzpah”: the young man who murders his parents and then demands mercy from the court on the ground that he is an orphan. But the conclusions that Murphy had
itler and Goebbels deserved. To be sure, these protestors’ verbal attack on me was constitutionally protected speech, just as the Nazi march through Skokie was constitutionally protected speech. But the shouting was plainly calculated to intimidate. An aura of violence was in the air, and had the police
t in lieu of the third movement of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth. He told me that its always good to have the recorded statement in the °8 [cite Best Defense, Chutzpah, articles] 324 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017411 4.2.12 WC: 191694 middle of the music, because Soviet authorities tend to listen to the beginning and end o
Entities connected to both Skokie and Chutzpah

Alan Dershowitz
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Bill Clinton
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Marc Rich
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Prince Charles
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Cynthia Nixon
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Leona Helmsley
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Supreme Court
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Thomas Jefferson
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O.J. Simpson
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Julie K. Brown
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Michael Douglas
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John F. Kennedy
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Adolf Eichmann
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Martin Luther
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Harvard Law School
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Adolf Hitler
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Elie Wiesel
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William Kunstler
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