NYT > U.S. News Thomas A. Durkin, Civil Liberties Lawyer for the Reviled, Dies at 78 Par :Carol Rosenberg 23 juillet 2025 à 19:44 He relished skewering the U.S. government as he represented unpopular defendants in public corruption and national security cases, like those at Guantánamo. © Teresa Crawford/Associated PressThomas A. Durkin in 2012. “He represented the damned of the earth,” a colleague said.