Alan Dershowitz Quotes
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.
Others argue that the prosecutors are the weakest link in the system. See {631696}.
Alan Dershowitz, Constitutional Law Scholar and Professor of Law, Newsweek, February 20, 1978
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Because of the discretion and lack of transparency of prosecutors, she argues that the prosecutors are the weak link in the criminal justice system. Others believe that the weak link is the judges who are the most protected. See {631729}.
The government of Pakistan regarded this as seditious. The Government can fire judges at will and the military has the right to convene its own courts and try Pakistani civilians for certain alleged crimes by removing their cases from the civilian courts. Even when a Pakistani judge is not intimidated by the government or the military, the Islamic extremist fanatics often assassinate any public official who any one of thousands of fanatics feels is anti-Islamic.
The notion of lifetime appointment for federal judges had been debated before and during the constitutional convention. The founders wrote it into the constitution to give the judges more security so that they could not be pressured by politicians or wealthy individuals. Also, without this concept many countries have judges who are just rubber stamps for the legislature or the leader of the country.
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- Born: September 1, 1938
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Former Felix Frankfurter Professor Law At Harvard Law School
Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law, and for controversial political views.
