"I'm not happy seeing Richard Nixon's gang being tried by blacks and liberals in the District of Columbia." - Alan Dershowtiz's (Courier Post, New Jersey, November 21, 1974)
In 1974, Alan Dershowitz was quoted in a syndicated article by the Associated Press saying “I’m not happy seeing Richard Nixon’s gang being tried by blacks and liberals in the District of Columbia.” One newspaper, the Post-Courier in New Jersey, ran the story on November 21, 1974, with a pull-quote
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"Based on the demographic criteria, the age of consent should be lowered. It certainly should not be as high as 17 or 16. Reasonable can disagree over whether it should be as low as 14. Fifteen would seem like an appropriate compromise." Alan Dershowtiz (Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1997)
Dershowitz made the suggestion in a 1997 op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, suggesting that 15 was a reasonable age of consent, no matter how old the other partner was.
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