Floyd Abrams (Supreme Court lawyer specializing in First Amendment)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Floyd Abrams is a Supreme Court lawyer with a focus on First Amendment Rights. Floyd joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what the First Amendment actually says, how public members of the legal system should be, and how much people can give medical advice legally. Floyd and Dax discuss how the idea of what privacy means has changed, who can technically be sued for libel, and how the media should be protected regardless of opinion. Floyd explains what you can't say if you settle a case, how social media has altered the idea of free speech, and how he used to tell his children about court cases as bedtime stories. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm
0:03.8	I'm deck shepherd. I'm joined by Monica Padman.
0:06.2	Hi. How you doing buddy?
0:07.8	Good. You're in a matching gray onesy very athletic look very 50s like you're in gym class in the 50s.
0:13.8	That's what I was going for I walked here.
0:15.5	We have a very very flattering guest as sometimes happens.
0:19.4	Today is Floyd Abrams.
0:21.0	Floyd Abrams is a legendary First Amendment attorney who has argued 14
0:25.4	cases before the Supreme Court of the United States just right out of the gates.
0:30.0	The Pentagon Papers, very famous. New York Times printed some leaked papers about our involvement in the Vietnam War,
0:36.6	how we had gotten there, commissioned by McNamara.
0:39.0	Huge kind of, all the Presidentsmen, level case that he won as a young attorney after the New York Times representation fired them.
0:47.6	Yeah, it's very impressive.
0:49.4	He's had a bunch of huge historic landmark cases and he knows more about the First Amendment than probably anyone else. So it was a blast talking to him.
0:57.0	Okay, now.
0:58.0	Housekeeping.
1:00.0	We want to address, there was not a question in Monday's fact check for armchair stories
1:06.4	which is not to say that we have not embraced it we love the feedback we're gonna do it we're gonna go hard
1:11.4	Monica came up with a great system and here's how it rolls.
1:14.6	It's now called Armchair Anonymous.
1:16.6	So you're going to go to the website and you're going to
1:18.9	up in W. W. armchair expert pod.com, that's W. Armchair Expert Pod.com, that's W.W. Armchair Expert Pod.com, and you're going to see Armchair Anonymous.
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