Hot Air: NYT schooled on Citizens United, free speech by famous lawyer for the…NYT

on November 28, 2012

and updated November 28, 2012

First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams represented the New York Times, ahem, Corporation, in the Pentagon Papers case and went on to represent Mitch McConnell on the side of Citizens United in that case. When the NYT editorial board bastardized the legal reasoning in the former iconic free speech case to justify bashing the latter, Abrams wrote to tell them so.