Letter to Justice Warren about Senate Testimony on Privacy (1967)
Dear Judge Warren: About ten years ago, in the 1956 issue of Judaism, there was published an article I had written entitled "The Fifth Amendment and its Equivalent in the Halakhah." I was honored to see a reference to this article in your famous Miranda decision of last May. I have the honor, therefore, of sending you enclosed a copy of the testimony I recently delivered before Senator Long's Sub-Committee dealing with the rights of privacy. My testimony, which will be shortly printed in the Proceedings of that Committee, deals with the views of Halakhah (Jewish law) on the Fourth Amendment.I know how terribly busy you are, but I would deeply appreciate receiving any comments you may have to make on this paper.Sincerely yours,Rabbi Norman LammRNL/fzenc.