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...these experts, would set a dangerous precedent. It would undermine the Judiciary's capacity to protect the rights of individuals from the whims of the majority. Even conservative scholars are upset by this attempt to get around Roe vs. Wade. Says Nixon's Solicitor General, Robert Bork, one who strongly disagrees with the Roe vs. Wade decision: "If the Human Life Statute becomes law, you've got a constitutional crisis. In the guise of gesticulating facts, it would be changing the court's constitutional role." Says Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe: "If Congress can do this...
...there's a knock on the door, which reminds parents of a traumatic experience in the war when the Nazis came, this child doesn't react with anxiety but in a more realistic way-he checks to see who's at the door." Adds Ruth Kukiela Bork, president of One Generation After, a service organization for the children of survivors: "The offspring's behavior will depend to a great extent on how the parents managed to cope...
...Antitrust is one of the battlegrounds upon which the future of capitalism is being fought out." -Former Solicitor General Robert Bork, at last week's TIME conference...
Still, Robert Bork, now a Yale law professor, contended that Kennedy-Metzenbaum is symptomatic of a new anti-bigness mentality in the highest reaches of Government. Though most conference participants felt that large companies compete as ferociously and fairly as small firms, they were told by Economist Walter Adams of Michigan State University that antitrust has political as well as economic elements. Said he: "The objective of antitrust is not to promote efficiency and consumer welfare. These are only ancillary benefits that are expected to flow from economic freedom. The primary purpose of antitrust is to perpetuate and preserve...
...charged with trying to force customers to buy entire IBM systems for commercial use, and with keeping competitors out of the market. A decade later U.S. vs. IBM is still droning on, a costly monument to the law's delay. The frustrating case, Yale Professor Robert Bork told TIME'S conference, is the antitrust division's "Viet Nam." Thomas Barr, the Cravath, Swaine & Moore attorney who is leading the IBM defense, explained at the meeting why he sees no light at the end of the tunnel...