Word: bork
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...most dramatic case heading for the court is, of course, the controversy over President Nixon's tapes. But Bork will not be directly involved because the Justice Department's special Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox, is arguing against Presidential Lawyer Charles Alan Wright. Thus there is no single Government position for Bork to maintain. Even so, he will, in effect, be heard. He has entered a suit filed by a Ralph Nader group seeking a variety of White House working papers relating to the raising of milk price supports shortly after large campaign contributions were made by dairymen. Bork...
Robert Heron Bork is not used to going unnoticed. Possessor of a jaunty red beard and a formidable conservative intellect, he was a natural standout among his faculty colleagues at Yale Law School, a longtime seat of liberal legal scholarship. He moved to Washington this summer as Richard Nixon's new Solicitor General, but so many other notable law professors swirled through town to advise on Watergate proceedings that Bork scarcely raised a ripple...
...that is about to change. The Supreme Court begins its fall term on Oct. 1, and Solicitor General Bork is the man who will talk to the Justices on behalf of the U.S. Government. As such, he can focus the court's attention by helping to choose which cases the Federal Government asks the Justices to hear as well as by the line of argument he decides to make. In addition, in his role as supervisor of U.S. appeals at every level, he controls the flow of cases throughout the appellate system...
...order man who has Barry Goldwater's backing, Kleindienst has not been in the post long enough to be rated accurately. Five key posts under him will be swept clean as part of the Nixon effort to have a forward-looking second term. Yale Law Professor Robert Bork, a critic of the Warren Court and a key man in developing Nixon's busing position, was named Solicitor General. The only woman and the only black to be appointed so far is Jewel Lafontant, a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, who will become Deputy Solicitor...
Griswold is expected to retire next spring, and will be succeeded by Robert H. Bork, a Yale Law School professor and anti-trust specialist. Griswold yesterday declined to comment on his future plans...