Arguing with a lawyer on a principle of constitutional law is like arguing with a pig in the mud...after awhile you realize that the pig is enjoying the encounter.
As to other matters...the president of Iran is said to be a Holocaust denier, that the murder of six million people is a myth. Why do the Holocaust deniers always turn out to be anti-Semites or otherwise nut-cakes?
I wonder what other things there are to deny? The Crusades? The Reformation? World War II? The Persian Gulf War? The invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein? Why can't we all play this game? As in, the Ayatollah Khomeini was a myth. The hostage taking for 441 days in Teheran must have been just a figment of our imagination. Some of the released hostages believe they recognize Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as one of the hostage takers, which he denies being. He says the holocaust is a myth. He doesn't like Israel being in his backyard. It must be nice to be able to cherry pick your history to leave out what you find inconvenient in terms of your world view. Here's the story, from Bloomberg.
Japan denies its atrocities in China, the Philippines, Malaysia, and elsewhere in WWII.
Germany, to its credit, has made teaching the lessons of the Holocaust to its schoolchildren, with visits to the concentration camps and a critique of verbal and pictorial expressions that denigrated Jews at the expense of Aryans which led down the road to the crematoria.
There are some roads you do not want to take the first step down, such as the unloading of the first slave from a Dutch ship in the Chesapeake in 1619, a road we're still trying to get off. According to a commentator heard on NPR last week, public schools in the U.S. are more segregated by race now than they were in 1954 when Brown v. Board supposedly ended the practice.
The more things change the more they remain the same, as one should say with a Gallic shrug.
Richard Pryor could probably describe it and make you laugh through the tears while you shook your head. RIP, RP.