In his latest sharp-witted work, perhaps the world's most well-known Jewish lawyer profiles the man he considers to the first-ever Jewish lawyer: the biblical patriarch Abraham.
Retired Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz, who has been called "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer" and one of its "most distinguished defenders of individual rights," on Oct. 6 came out with Abraham: The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer. The attorney and Israel advocate says he has essentially been working on the book for 70 of his 79 years.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's presidential campaign Tuesday panned the criteria being used to whittle down the candidate list for the next Republican debate, saying it shouldn't ignore the importance of early voting states Iowa and New Hampshire.
Without a change in criteria, Jindal appears again headed for the undercard debate, rather than the main stage, for the CNBC event Oct. 28.
