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Other experts, like Yale Law Professor Robert Bork, disagree strongly. Says Bork: "When I see business managers deciding to merge, and I can see that it doesn't eliminate competition, then the only thing it does do is increase business efficiency. Anything that increases business efficiency helps-at home and in foreign markets...
Some observers think Reagan may pick a crony, White House Counsellor Edwin Meese, Deputy Secretary of State William Clark. Others predict that he will select an academic like Yale's Robert Bork or Chicago's Philip Kurland. The nation's lower courts offer Reagan such conservatives as Dallin Oaks of the Utah Supreme Court and Malcolm Wilkey, an old friend of Chief Justice Warren Burger's who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals...
...Robert Bork, another professor of Law at Yale, said that the plaintiffs and groups, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, which support them "are looking for an abstract ruling without relation to the facts and circumstances of the military...
...Bork also said the Court should not worry about damaging its record on sex discrimination. because it has upheld certain laws in the past ten years which do apply differently to men and women...
...doesn't impair the Supreme Court's ability to review Congress. It's just that this time around, they'll have to take into account the legislative determination. They can decide to follow it or not, but they have to give it due respect." Responds Bork: "The court won't let Congress make a determination of what the facts are, when the facts are the crucial facts for constitutional purposes. I think the court will gather itself to strike this law down...