Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, a homeless person will be appointed to the city's Emergency Shelter Commission. Maguire also will urge the Governor's Advisory Board on Homelessness, co-chaired by Kitty Dukakis, to appoint homeless people to its board...
Reagan told reporters earlier yesterday that he would soon appoint a successor for Meese, who announced last week that he would leave the Justice Department by early August. Meese said he had been vindicated by Independent Counsel James McKay's investigation of alleged wrongdoing during Meese's tenure as attorney general...
...Justice Department, had argued that the law violated the separation-of-powers principle by providing for independent counsel to be chosen by a special three-judge court. The broad scope of special prosecutors' powers, he contended, made them "principal officers" that the Constitution says only the President may appoint. In January, a federal appeals panel that heard his case overturned...
...selection process, for instance, by allowing the Attorney General to decide when special prosecutors are required and whether to dismiss them for "good cause." For that reason, Rehnquist held, independent counsel is one of the "inferior officers" that the Constitution says Congress may allow department heads or judges to appoint...
...justices have gamely hung on for the past few years to avoid a Reagan sweep. Some Blacks now talk fatalistically of "living through four years of Bush." If Jackson isn't on the ticket, they figure it would be better to teach the Democrats a lesson. But having Bush appoint the next few justices could be disastrous for the next 15 or 20 years, and the symbolic show of disgust hardly seems worth the consequences. It is dangerous when there are too many liberals or conservatives in the Court, and the ball is now in the conservatives' court...