NY Times’ lawyer takes NY Times Editorial Board to task on Citizens United

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NY Times’ lawyer takes NY Times Editorial Board to task on Citizens United

 

 

Posted by William A. Jacobson Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 2:32pm

 

Floyd Abrams, a senior partner at the law firm I worked at right out of law school, wrote a Letter to the Editor of The New York Times explaining why the Times got it wrong in attacking Justice Alito’s defense of Citizens United.

 

Citizens United is one of the most demagogued decisions from the left. It is fodder for bumper stickers, Obama’s insults to the Justices at the State of the Union, and Elizabeth Warren’s

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Abrams takes that demoagoguery to task. And his letter actually was published … maybe because he has represented the Times in some of its highest profile litigation.

 

Here’s the letter (h/t @andrewgrossman)(emphasis mine):

 

To the Editor: