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...sort of open season for tampering with the Constitution. In addition, many experts also oppose writing a flat prohibition on deficits into the Constitution. One reason is that it would holster an important weapon in coping with recession. Moreover, many doubt that a no-deficit amendment is practical. Robert Bork, Yale's conservative law professor and former U.S. Solicitor General in the Nixon Administration, attempted for several months to draft a constitutional amendment that would limit federal spending. He is finally giving up. Said he: "The more I tried, the more I became dubious it would work." If federal...
Litigation will continue, perhaps at " faster pace. "The Supreme Court has not stopped something," says former U.S. Solicitor General Robert Bork, who now teaches law at Yale. "It has started something." Probably more white males will be tempted to file suit against affirmative-action programs on the grounds that they are really hidden quota systems...
Yeah, John Connally, Caspar Weinberger, Robert Bork...
...Solicitor General for four years, Robert Bork may be remembered best for sacking Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973 on Richard Nixon's orders. Now Bork has job offers from seven gilt-edged law firms "and invitations to teach law at Chicago, Michigan, Princeton and Yale. Says he of the Saturday Night Massacre: "The people who have jobs to offer aren't troubled...
Denial of Rights. The case at hand is whether black parents are denied the right to make a contract, as defined by the 13th Amendment, by the policies of the schools. The Justice Department, in a brief filed by Solicitor General Robert Bork, argues in support of the decisions of the lower courts that such a denial of rights has occurred. As Appeals Court Chief Judge Clement Haynsworth Jr. wrote in one of those decisions, the law "is a limitation upon private discrimination, and its enforcement ... is not a deprivation of any right of free association or privacy...