He was once described by the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan as “the most significant First Amendment lawyer of our age.” In November 2011, Yale Law School inaugurated an “Institute for Freedom of Expression” in his name. He’s represented CNN twice on matters designed to safeguard its journalists and reporting, and both Nina Totenberg and NPR.
Now, 87-year-old Floyd Abrams has voluntarily spoken out against the renewal of a FOX Television Stations property’s license by the FCC on the grounds “that the application of
WTXF for license renewal may well turn out to be one of the most significant ones
that the Commission has ever issued and that it will inevitably have a significant First
Amendment impact.”
