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Searching for
Champions - Academia
(Building Honest Scholarship)
PROFESSOR ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
(Harvard Law School)
The Best Defense -- Introduction:
"One working title for
this book was 'Black Robes, White Lies.' That would have been appropriate,
because lying, distortion, and other forms of intellectual dishonesty are
endemic among judges...Beneath the robes of many judges, I have seen corruption,
incompetence, bias, laziness, meanness of spirit, and plain ordinary stupidity.
I know of
numerous instances where judges have made false claims about what they read,
distorted the records, and engaged in other deceptions. Why judges are
permitted to get away with -- and indeed are often praised for -- this kind of
intellectual dishonesty is an important and largely unanswered question
confronting the American legal system."
1989
1996
CJA's
March 20, 1996 letter to Professor Dershowitz
Ex. A: "Comm'n Abandons Investigative Mandate",
CJA's Letter to the Editor, NYLJ, August 14, 1995
Ex. B-1: CJA's November 17, 1995 letter to Professor Monroe Freedman
Ex.
B-2: CJA's December 1, 1995 letter to Professor Stephen Gillers
Ex. C:
CJA's "Questions to be Answered" by Independent Evaluator
Ex. D: CJA's March 18, 1996 letter to City Bar President Barbara Paul
Robinson
Ex. E:
CJA's March 18, 1996 letter to Professor Stephen Gillers
-- transmitting copy of
file of
Doris L. Sassower v. Commission on Judicial Conduct of the
State of NY
April 2, 1996 letter from Professor Dershowitz' secretary
CJA's April 12, 1996 letter to Professor Dershowitz' secretary
April 15, 1996 letter from Professor Dershowitz' secretary
CJA's April 15, 1996 letter to Professor Dershowitz
2001
CJA's May 3, 2001 letter to Professor Dershowitz
-- transmitting appellate papers in
Test Case - State (Commission)
2002
CJA's January 28, 2002 letter to
Professor Dershowitz
-- "HELP in obtaining amicus and other assistance, including media
coverage, for the public interest lawsuit Elena Ruth Sassower,
Coordinator of the Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc., acting pro bono
publico against Commission on Judicial Conduct of the State of New York
(S.Ct./NY Co. #108551; App. Div. 1st Dept. #5638) -- now headed for the New
York Court of Appeals"
Ex. A:
1996 exchange
Ex. B:
CJA's May 3, 2001 letter
Ex. C: CJA's April 15, 1996 letter
Ex. D: "Without Merit: The Empty Promise of
Judicial Discipline", by Elena Sassower, The Long Term View
(Massachusetts School of Law) (summer 1996)
Ex.
E: "Nameless nut slimes Dershowitz", NY Post, 12/26/98
Ex.
F: Professor Ed Greenstein's September 16, 1999 letter of tribute to Elena
Sassower
-- transmitting appellate papers in
Test Case - State (Commission)
2025
CJA's October 25, 2025 e-mail
--
"UPDATE -- Oct 27th NYC
Conference --
Lawsuit vs the Press for Rigging Mamdani's
Electoral Win as NYC Mayor:
'journalistic fraud',
'institutional reckless disregard for truth', etc."
CJA's October 26, 2025 e-mail
--
"TOMORROW's NYC
Conference --
ANSWERING THE CALL TO ACTION WITH ACTION:
Lawsuit vs the Press for Rigging Mamdani's Electoral Win as
NYC Mayor:
'journalistic fraud', 'institutional reckless
disregard for truth', etc."
CJA's October 31, 2025 e-mail
--
"UPDATE: Federal Lawsuit vs the NYT & Other
Press
for Rigging Mamdani's Electoral Win as NYC Mayor:
'journalistic fraud',
'institutional reckless disregard
for truth', etc."
CJA's November 6, 2025 e-mail --
"Counsellors, what are your legal opinions? -- CJA's Federal
Lawsuit vs the NYT & Other Press
for Rigging Mamdani's
Electoral Win as NYC Mayor: 'journalistic fraud',
'institutional reckless disregard for truth', etc."
cc:
CJA's November 10, 2025 e-mail --
"Upholding the Legacy of Elie Wiesel -- Primary Source
Documentary Evidence
of the Rigging of Mamdani's
Electoral Win as NYC Mayor by the NYT & Other Press"
CJA's November 21, 2025 e-mail
--
"Maximizing Benefit to
Shurat HaDin & Israel --
CJA's Federal Lawsuit vs the
NYT & Other Press for Rigging Mamdani's Electoral Win
as
NYC Mayor: 'journalistic fraud', 'reckless institutional
disregard for truth,' etc"
2026
CJA's May 15, 2026 e-mail
--
"Please alert Prime Minister Netanyahu & Foreign
Minister Sa'ar to sue The NYT & Nicholas Kristof for
'journalistic fraud' and 'institutional reckless disregard
for truth'"
CJA's May 18, 2026 e-mail --
"SIMPLE QUESTION:
Do
you agree that Israel & Prime Minister Netanyahu could
successfully bring a federal lawsuit
suing The NYT &
Nicholas Kristof for 'journalistic fraud' and 'institutional
reckless disregard for truth'?"
cc:
May 20, 2026 e-mail from Shurat HaDin Weiser
cc:
CJA's May 21, 2026 e-mail to JNS Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Tobin
--
"LEAD -- Israel can successfully sue The NYT &
Nicholas Kristof for 'journalistic fraud'
and 'institutional
reckless disregard for truth' in the US District Court for the Southern
District of NY"
cc:
Professor Mark Goldfeder's May 21, 2026 e-mail -- "RE: LEAD..."
cc:
Professor Strossen's May 21, 2026 e-mail --
"RE: LEAD..."
cc:
CJA's May 21, 2026 e-mail to Professor Strossen
-- "Explanation
Requested..."
cc:
Professor Strossen's May 21, 2026 e-mail --
"RE: Explanation Requested..."
cc:
CJA's May 21, 2026 e-mail to
Professor Strossen
--
"The EVIDENCE that Israel can
successfully sue The NYT & Nicholas Kristof for 'journalistic fraud'
and 'institutional reckless disregard for truth' in the US District
Court for the Southern District of NY"
cc:
Mr. Stephens' May 22, 2026
e-mail -- "RE: The
EVIDENCE..."
cc:
CJA's May 26, 2026 e-mail to
Shurat HaDin, etc --
"THE EVIDENCE that
Israel can successfully sue The NYT & Nicholas Kristof for
'journalistic fraud'
and 'institutional reckless
disregard for truth' in the US District Court for the
Southern District of NY"
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