Word: bickel
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...court would seem a certain route to impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate. Even Vice President Gerald Ford, who contends that the prospect of impeachment has been diminishing, concedes that defiance of the court would create "a whole new ball game." Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel, who has been both critical of and sympathetic toward various Nixon legal claims, declares, "I don't know anyone who argues that when you get to a court decree after adjudication there is any kind of moral or legal right to defy it." Nixon's rationale for intransigence would doubtless...
...question because Nixon is the country's chief law-enforcement officer, head of the Executive household and ultimately Jaworski's boss. As such, St. Clair explains, the President has final authority to settle what is essentially an internal matter. Yale's respected constitutional law professor, Alexander Bickel, supports that argument. The President, says Bickel, has the power to end the legal confrontation simply by firing Jaworski. "Courts can't take on cases for the purpose of rendering advisory opinions that can be lawfully voided by one of the parties to the dispute...
...validity in 1954, when police men (Sgt. Pepper?) stood in the school doorways to bar black children, it is almost meaningless today. To the black youth isolated in the center of the doughnut, what difference does it make whether his position results from law or social fact? As Alexander Bickel writes in The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress...
...Pollak, a Yale law professor, feels that Nixon should not be impeached unless there is evidence of his actual involvement in illegal activities such as the Watergate cover-up or the plumbers' burglary. In other words, the President must be shown to be guilty of a crime. Alexander Bickel, also a Yale law professor, rejects such issues as the impoundment of funds or the secret bombing of Cambodia as proper grounds. By those standards, he argues, "I don't think any of the 37 Presidents would have served out their terms...
...Bickel told newsmen, "Judicial power is not compatible with the exercise of the hiring, firing and for all I know, the supervising of prosecutors...