Cahill, Gordon & Reindel
Partner and First Amendment attorney with the law firm of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, and author of Friend of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment
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Floyd Abrams
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FROM Floyd Abrams
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Is Press Freedom 'Plummeting' in US? Reporters Without Borders is an international NGO that rates 180 countries on press freedom. Its latest report has Finland, the Netherlands and Norway at the top of the list, with Turkmenistan North Korea and Eritrea at the bottom. The US is said to have suffered a "significant decline," having dropped 13 points since last year when it comes to press freedom. It's now reportedly standing at 46th out of 180, between Romania and Haiti. First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams has defended Daniel Ellsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers and prevailed over the Nixon Administration. His books include Friend of the Court and Speaking Freely , and he's been a professor at the law schools of Yale and Columbia.
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