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Entertainment & Sports

Mar. 4, 2000

Law & Order: Script Insidiously Attacks Civil Liberties

The producers of "Law & Order" have perfected the art of disguising devastating attacks on individual liberties. They sneak up from behind, slip a dagger in the heart of the Bill of Rights and barely ripple the parchment.

By Allen Bloom
        The producers of "Law & Order" have perfected the art of disguising devastating attacks on individual liberties. They sneak up from behind, slip a dagger in the heart of the Bill of Rights and barely ripple the parchment. The most recent insidious attack is against the "kind" of defense lawyer who fights hard for his client and has the temerity to actually oppose o...

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