57: Robert Corn-Revere on Defending the First Amendment in Court
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Robert Corn-Revere is considered by many people to be the preeminent First Amendment lawyer in America. He is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Davis Wright Tremaine and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has argued and been involved with some of the most significant and controversial First Amendment cases of the past 30 years. We discuss how Bob was able to get a pardon for Lenny Bruce, the importance of defending speech especially when it's unpopular, and some of the Supreme Court cases he has worked on.
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