Law & Order (TV Series)

Refuge: Part 2 (1999)

Steven Hill: DA Adam Schiff

Quotes 

• Adam Schiff : Forget Houghton. Read Milligan. Habeas corpus cannot be suspended, quote, "where the courts are open and their process unobstructed." And that was during the Civil War.

  Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy : When witnesses and officers of the court are being killed, the process of the court is being obstructed. These thugs are threatening the viability of the criminal justice system.

  Adam Schiff : Get off your high horse. This city has had riots, police officers killed, government buildings attacked. We got through it just fine without tearing up the constitution.

  Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy : And this time, Adam, we're out-muscled, out-gunned, out-sleazed.

  Adam Schiff : If that's what you want, out-sleaze 'em.

  Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy : I don't agree that's...

  Adam Schiff : I don't care what you agree. You go to Washington...

  [Walks away] 

• Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy : Adam, unless you order me not to do it...

  Adam Schiff : I'm ordering you not to do it.