The Court Of Last Resort Is No

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.

I Have No Doubt That If An Actual Ticking Bomb Situation Were To Arise, Our Law Enforcement Authorities Would Torture. The Real Debate Is Whether Such Torture Should Take Place Outside Of Our Legal System Or Within It. The Answer To This Seems Clear: If We Are To Have Torture, It Should Be Authorized By The Law.

In The Pentagon Papers Case, The Government Asserted In The Supreme Court That The Publication Of The Material Was A Threat To National Security. It Turned Out It Was Not A Threat To U.s. Security. But Even If It Had Been, That Doesn't Mean That It Couldn't Be Published.

I Think We're Seeing Privacy Diminish, Not By Laws... But By Young People Who Don't Seem To Value Their Privacy.

I've Thought Hard About My Psychological Connections And I Think I've Managed To Separate Out The Psychological From The Legal, Moral, And Political.