Word: bork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next week, Acting Atty. Gen. Robert H. Bork will appoint the successor to Archibald Cox '34, the special Watergate prosecutor fired by Nixon last Saturday...
...Justice Dept. spokesman said last night Nixon will consult in the selection of the new prosecutor, the Associated Press reported. Bork said before the news conference yesterday that he had recommended the naming of a prosecutor and had submitted five or six names for White House consideration...
...turn, Richardson, in a brief filed in court, rejected Agnew's plea for immunity on constitutional grounds by arguing forcefully that Agnew could be indicted before he was impeached. The brief, signed by Solicitor General Robert H. Bork but clearly Richardson's responsibility, claimed that only the President was immune from prosecution prior to impeachment-a point of view that may have a vital bearing later on if Richard Nixon ever is indicted...
Racial discrimination is one example of an area where the court has a proper constitutional mandate, in Bork's view. But when it comes to school financing, he approves the Supreme Court decision last March that the Constitution does not require the state to balance spending in rich and poor school districts. "Everyone talks about what a shame it is that the Supreme Court failed to require the equalizing of public school expenditures," he says. "But nobody talks about whether the court is the proper body" to accomplish that...
...Bork, "this is obviously an area that is best left to the political process, not the judicial...