David Dorsen is the proverbial man for all seasons. He’s a prominent jurist in high profile cases, an author of both fiction and non-fiction, a newspaper columnist, a food and wine critic, and a law professor. Some 45 years ago he was assistant chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee, the investigation that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. This gives him a unique perspective on events of the day. He is also a former assistant US Attorney under Robert M. Morgenthau. Dorsen in 2018 completed his first novel, a contemporary account of a fictional libel case involving the President of the United States. It’s called Moses v. Trump, which was out in November. He has a lot of experience in such cases having represented Vietnam era Gen. William Westmoreland in a libel suit against CBS and Mike Wallace, and also John and Maureen Dean in a libel suit against St. Martin’s Press and Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy. He has taught at Duke University in North Carolina, and Georgetown University Law Center and George Washington University Law School, both in Washington, DC. Since Trump was elected in 2016, Dorsen has been called on to give expert commentary on national programs, particularly after Trump’s controversial nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Though they often differed on issues, Dorsen was a long-time friend of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and wrote a well-regarded book, The Unexpected Scalia: A Conservative Justice’s Liberal Opinions. An earlier book Dorsen wrote was Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of his Era (with Richard A. Posner, 2012), which won the Green Bag Award for Exemplary Legal Writing.