Harvey Silverglate
Harvey Silverglate | |
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Born | May 10, 1942 (age 82) |
Occupation | Attorney |
Organization | Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) |
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Harvey Allen Silverglate (born May 10, 1942) is an American attorney, journalist, writer, and the co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
Silverglate was a member of the board of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and also taught at Harvard Law School, the University of Massachusetts Boston, and at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.[1]
He is an attorney in
Early life and education
Born in New York City, Silverglate graduated in 1960 from
Among his more prominent clients is John Eastman, a fellow attorney controversial for his service to Donald Trump.[4][5]
Career
In addition to his law practice, Silverglate is also a journalist and writer. He was a columnist for the
Silverglate was a featured speaker at a rally by Demand Progress in memory of Aaron Swartz[7] and wrote an op-ed for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly about Swartz's prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's Office. Lawyers familiar with the case told him the Middlesex County District Attorney's plan had been to resolve Swartz's case by having it "...continued without a finding, with Swartz duly admonished and then returned to civil society to continue his pioneering electronic work in a less legally questionable manner."[8][9] As he explained to CNET's Declan McCullagh
Under such a disposition, the charge is held in abeyance ("continued") without any verdict ("without a finding"). The defendant is on probation for a period of a few months up to maybe a couple of years at the most; if the defendant does not get into further legal trouble, the charge is dismissed, and the defendant has no criminal record. This is what the lawyers expected to happen when Swartz was arrested.[8]
"Tragedy intervened", Silverglate wrote in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, "when [United States Attorney Carmen] Ortiz's office took over the case to 'send a message".[9]
Harvey sat on the board of visitors at Ralston College, a new liberal arts college in Savannah, Georgia. Harvey publicly broke with the college and resigned from the board, decrying the unaccredited college as "antithetical to the whole concept of a liberal arts institution."[10][clarification needed]
2009 Harvard Board of Overseers election
Silverglate was a candidate in the 2009 Harvard Board of Overseers elections. After collecting 315 signatures from Harvard alumni, he was nominated as a petition candidate in early February 2009. His platform[11] focused on reforming the student disciplinary board, eliminating speech codes, and restoring the student voice in university outreach efforts. His campaign had been covered in The Boston Globe[12] and the Harvard Law Record,[13] and he made an appearance on Greater Boston with Emily Rooney.[14] Election results were announced at commencement, June 4, 2009, and Silverglate finished in eighth place, with 11,700 votes, 1,600 short of winning a seat.[15]
Personal life
Silverglate was married to the
Books
- Silverglate, Harvey A. (September 2009). Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. New York: OL 23165254M.
- The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses by ISBN 0-06-097772-8(1999).
- Conviction Machine: Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse by Sidney Powell and Harvey A. Silverglate (2019).
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Archive". Harvey A. Silverglate. Archived from the original on 15 October 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
- ^ Harvey Silverglate profile Archived 2008-03-30 at the Wayback Machine, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education website]; accessed March 20, 2008.
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Accessed July 3, 2023. "Harvey Silverglate was born in New York (1942) and was educated at Bogota (N.J.) High School (1960), Princeton University (1964), and Harvard Law School (1967)."
- ^ Fausset, Richard; Hakim, Danny (31 August 2022). "Conservative Lawyer a Likely Target in Atlanta Trump Investigation, His Lawyer Says". New York Times.
- ^ Suter, Tara (2 August 2023). "Eastman lawyer says plea deal would be rejected if offered in Jan. 6 case". The Hill.
- thephoenix.com. Archivedfrom the original on 19 October 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
- ^ Sacchetti, Maria (April 13, 2013). "Ralliers at Dewey Square remember Internet activist Aaron Swartz". Boston Globe. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- ^ a b McCullagh, Declan (2013-01-25). "Swartz didn't face prison until feds took over case, report says". CNET. Archived from the original on 2023-03-09. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
- ^ a b Silverglate, Harvey (January 23, 2013). "The Swartz suicide and the sick culture of the DOJ". Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Archived from the original on 2013-01-29.
- ^ "Savannah Morning News". savannahnow.com. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
- ^ "Harvey's Board of Overseers platform". Archived from the original on 2009-02-24. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
- boston.com. Archived from the originalon 2 March 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Andrew Kalloch, "Silverglate seeks spot as university overseer" Archived 2010-03-02 at the Wayback Machine, hlrecord.org; accessed May 1, 2015.
- ^ "Freedman on Greater Boston" (with Emily Rooney), streams.wgbh.org; accessed May 1, 2015.
- ^ Robert J. Ambrogi, Lawyers Fail in Campaigns for Harvard Overseers, legalblogwatch.typepad.com; accessed May 1, 2015.
- ^ Feeney, Mark (May 30, 2020). "Elsa Dorfman, photographer whose distinctive portraits illuminated her subjects and herself, dies at 83". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on May 31, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- ^ Becker, Deborah (May 30, 2020). "Cambridge Photographer Elsa Dorfman, Famous For Her Giant Polaroids, Dies At 83". WBUR-FM. Retrieved May 30, 2020.