Alan Dershowitz
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787 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 16 Aug
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But the Harvard Law School faculty is, you know, 98 percent liberal Democrat.
And so things have changed.
When I first went to the faculty in 1964, I would say it was 60 40 conservative to liberal.
Now it's 98 to 2 percent liberal to conservative.
Let me let me.
That is how it feels.
Can I dissent from that?
I don't think that this these the personal fear of being called a racist was a factor here.
Why?
Because, look, a majority of the Supreme Court, including all the conservatives, ruled Harvard's system and North Carolina's system of race specific affirmative action, which I have opposed as a liberal since 1970.
I wrote my first law review article
saying that race specific affirmative action is unconstitutional.
It took a lot of courage, not only for me back in 1970, but for these justices to fly in the face of the liberal dogma that, you know, you can't live without race specific affirmative action.
So they have shown courage in the racial context from time to time.
Look, you can argue this is the wrong decision, I think, without necessarily impugning
the independence or integrity of the two swing justices that differ with you on this.
So I agree with much of the conclusion, but I would stay away from trying to psychoanalyze or politicize these justices.
I think they did what they thought was right.
Let me tell you why he wouldn't be.
Justice Scalia says he doesn't believe in legislative history.
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