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Died. Alexander Mordecai Bickel, 49, distinguished constitutional lawyer and Yale Law professor; of cancer; in New Haven. A native of Bucharest, Rumania, Bickel emigrated to New York in 1939, manned a machine gun with the U.S. infantry in Italy and France and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law School after the war. Later he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, who molded his approach to the law. Politically liberal, Bickel backed Robert Kennedy for President in 1968 and defended the New York Times in the Pentagon papers case in 1971, but often stunned liberal friends with his judicially...
...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...
...view, in a nutshell, is that every major social ill in this country can find its cure in some constitutional 'principle,' and that this court should 'take the lead' in promoting reform when other branches of government fail to act." Yale's Professor Alexander Bickel complained that the court "seems to lack a sense of the limitations of the institution...
...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...