Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case you don't change your mind, do you think Professor Dershowitz would be interested in a spot on the Supreme Court...
...know, the Supreme Court's recent decision on flag-burning has touched off quite a reaction across the nation. Here in Louisiana, where the Supreme Court has never been particularly well-liked, folks have been down-right offensive...
...sure you can imagine my dismay as I listened to a radio talk show the day after the decision was announced. Zealous callers denounced the Court's lack of patriotism. One young man--president of a local white supremacist group--said he thought the first amendment ought to be repealed...
...would look to you for leadership. After all, as the nation's most-quoted expert on constitutional law, who would better understand why protecting flag-burning is so essential to basic civil liberties? And as a heralded liberal (whom many say will have his own seat on the Court someday), who could better weather the political storm and take the unpopular but moral stand...
...scholar, and my half-B.A. doesn't match your summa J.D.'s and L.L.B.'s. Still, it seems to me that your proposal--to pass a statute making the flag a national icon like the Statue of Liberty--would easily be contested as a blatant violation of the Court's latest decision...