Floyd Abrams Quotes
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
Abrams, Floyd. Interview with Charlie Rose. Charlie Rose, PBS, 21 Apr. 2005.
At the time he was not an official of the bar association.
Judges were commonly granting injunctions against unions that were boycotting companies, which was then against the law. However, no judge had ever given an injunction against a company to stop them from boycotting individual workers who were known union organizers. Taft, who had a distinguished career as a Judge earlier in his career shocked the business world and delighted organized labor. Considered politically, a Republican running for President publicly advocated a new right and protection for labor organizing, when his party was supposed to protect companies against Labor. Taft however, was not an ideologue, but was a very fair man, and to him this particular issue was simple. Veteran politicians thought that he should have ducked the question, as he would offend much of the Republican base, but he was used to that being the number 2 man in Theodore Roosevelt’s Administration.
Floyd Abrams is an American attorney at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. He is an expert on constitutional law, and has argued 13 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. Many of the arguments in briefs he has written have been adopted as United States Constitutional interpretative law as it relates to the First Amendment and free speech.
