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The Lioness of Liberty A Look at Professor Nadine Strossen
by Hansen Alexander Features Editor When Professor Nadine Strossen's hero, Justice Wllliam 0. Douglas, died in 1975, President Carter called him "a lion-like defender of liberty." The first woman and youngest person to become prestdent of the American Civil Liberties Union, Nadine Strossen has carried on the defense of individual liberties embodied in the Constitution's Bill of Rights in the same flamboyant, controversial manner as Douglas. Strossen defends the Bill of Rights everywhere: On ABC's "Politically Incorrect." On "The Late Show" with Tom Snyder. On "The Charles Grodin Show." On CNN. On Oliver North's radio program. On Court TV. On Charlie Rose. On Italian national television. Before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution. In a Playboy interview. Debating Justice Antonin Scalia and Phyllis Schlafly. On the nation's premier personality page, the Style section of The Washington Post. Fighting for constitutional rights is "often an unpopular business. For example, Strossen wrote in volume 24 of the Fordham Urban Law Journal, at 455, "Too many ACLU clients who
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