Word: bickel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only to slow legal innovation. It is far from certain that Nixon, even if he tried, could swing the court in the direction he wanted. Justices often disappoint Presidents. "You shoot an arrow into a far-distant future when you appoint a Justice," says Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel. "And not the man himself can tell you what he will think about some of the problems that he will face...
Gaston, is played engagingly by Ross Bickel and minces and shuffles as a nervous adolescent nincompoop. The other actors are competent as is to be expected but none of them is memorable...
...personal charm and his position," says Professor Kalven. "Fortas will do it by being the best man on the team." In cases where he is by himself or has only one or two colleagues agreeing with him, whatever he does will make little difference, observes Yale Professor Alexander Bickel. But where he is in a minority of four, as he was last month in the public-drunkenness decision, the added power he has as Chief Justice might be enough to tip the scales and turn a dissent into a decision...
Some scholars see the next few years as a period of consolidation in which the Fortas court will refine and clarify the sometimes cluttered landmarks of the Warren era. Others, like Yale's Bickel, suspect that the Fortas court may have even bigger problems, exert even a greater influence on the nation...
...fortune to remain active as long as Warren has? he is 77? there will still be a Fortas court in 1987. If he lasts as long as Mr. Justice Holmes, who retired at 90, there will be a Fortas court in 2000. "The court is like the country," says Bickel, "with new forces and new constituencies regrouping. We have a whole set of new problems with very different social, economic, and political trends running than we had at the beginning of the Warren court...