Bennett L Gershman

February 11, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Is the First Amendment applicable to speech by the government, and most especially to a president's speech?

By Bennett L. Gershman

5 minute read

January 22, 2021 | New York Law Journal

When historians write about the Trump era, they will almost certainly conclude that lawyers played a dominant role in aiding and abetting Trump's subversion of the rule of law, and of democracy itself.

By Bennett L. Gershman

7 minute read

January 05, 2021 | New York Law Journal

If criminal offenses are provable and within the relevant statutes of limitations, there is no question that Trump should be prosecuted.

By Bennett L. Gershman

7 minute read

December 11, 2020 | New York Law Journal

The suit is a dishonest and irresponsible effort to use the highest court as a prop to advance a political agenda.

By Bennett L. Gershman

6 minute read

December 04, 2020 | New York Law Journal

With a pandemic raging, and tens of thousands of persons dying each week, these executions are largely being ignored.

By Bennett L. Gershman

6 minute read

January 07, 2020 | New York Law Journal

District Attorney Vance has a solid case. He doesn't need the help, or interference, by the Los Angeles District Attorney. And in the end this unseemly gambit may come back to bite him.

By Bennett L. Gershman

4 minute read

November 14, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Why do the courts really have to take so long to decide these cases?

By Joel Cohen and Bennett L. Gershman

6 minute read

June 17, 2019 | New York Law Journal

What really is morally and intellectually indefensible--which Mr. Richman overlooks--is the mob-like rush to judgment in 1989 against these five innocent boys by the media, the public and Donald Trump, who insinuated himself with his front-page incendiary call for the death penalty.

By Bennett L. Gershman

3 minute read

March 13, 2018 | Law.com

In November 2007, as American soldiers were still being killed daily in Iraq, Mario Cuomo received an award for outstanding public service from the…

By Joel Cohen and Bennett L. Gershman

6 minute read

October 22, 2013 | New York Law Journal

By Jay C. Carlisle II, Randolph M. McLaughlin, Bennett L. Gershman, Merril Sobie

3 minute read