Epstein Secrets

. In 1962, there were approximately 18 clerks serving the 9 justices; the chief justice had 3, the associate justices were entitled to 2, but Justice Douglas--who rarely used his clerk--opted for only one. Today, each justice has __ law clerks and the chiefjustice has _. The competition for these coveted

Association Journal 58 (Aug. 1972): 815. 4! AsT wrote in Why Terrorism Works: In my debates with two prominent civil libertarians, Floyd Abrams and Harvey Silverglate, both have acknowledged that they would want nonlethal torture to be used if it could prevent thousands of deaths, but they did not want torture to b

banner headline “U.S. Supreme Court Trio Encourages Rape”: In a decision handed down last week three U.S. Supreme Court justices, Goldberg, Brennan, Douglas, raised the question of whether it was proper to condemn a man to death for the crime of rape if there has been no endangering of the life of the vic

ecently ordered the district court to consider all the new “evidence as a whole.” So the case is far from over. I continue to confer on the case with Harvey Silverglate, who was MacDonald’s classmate at Princeton and who was my co-counsel in the earlier Habeus Corpus appeal. Whatever happens, I believe that Jeffrey

xplain. In his “Parable of the Sentient Puddle,” Douglas Adams describes a puddle that wakes up in the mor

filled with vague statutes. The result is that every American unwittingly commits “three felonies a day” (as the title of a book by civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate puts it) and is in jeopardy of imprisonment whenever it suits the government’s needs. It’s this prosecutorial weaponry that makes Big Brother all-pow

xplain. In his “Parable of the Sentient Puddle,” Douglas Adams describes a puddle that wakes up in the mor

filled with vague statutes. The result is that every American unwittingly commits “three felonies a day” (as the title of a book by civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate puts it) and is in jeopardy of imprisonment whenever it suits the government’s needs. It’s this prosecutorial weaponry that makes Big Brother all-pow