Word: dorsen
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...March, the Civil Liberties Union (CLU), a liberal advocacy group at the Law School, and the Federalists, a conservative organization, sponsored a debate between Norman Dorsen and William Donahue. Dorsen is president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), while Donahue is one of the ACLU's most vocal critics...
...controversy arose when the Federalist Society--which now possesses the tape--refused to give any copies to either Dorsen or CLU. Donahue also has not received a copy...
Asher, for his part, says he fears the Federalist Society will try to do the very same thing, only to cast Dorsen in a negative light...
...assumed that the tape made of the debate would be generally available so that members of the public could draw their own conclusions about the Donahue allegation concerning the ACLU," Dorsen, who is also a law professor at New York University, said in an interview yesterday. "It is surprising, to say the least, that anyone would try to deepsix the record of an open debate at an academic institution about civil liberties...
...caption in yesterday's Crimson incorrectly identified the man in the photograph. The man pictured on page 5 was not the author William Donahue, but American Civil Liberties Union President Norman Dorsen...