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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...
...Bork is an enthusiastic Nixon supporter, having publicly backed him in 1968 and 1972. "I like him. He's an intellectual politician," says the law professor. But he readily admits that "in some areas I'm the Government's hired gun. I'd enforce a policy even though I might disagree with it." Indeed, as a scholar he has criticized the Nixon Administration's antitrust policy for not being sufficiently laissez-faire, but he is fully prepared to argue in court against his own academic position, if necessary...
...Timid. An expert in constitutional as well as antitrust law, Bork says he was once a "conventional New Deal liberal," but began changing his mind under the influence of conservative professors while he was at the University of Chicago Law School. Graduated in 1953 after being managing editor of the Law Review, he was hired by a top Chicago firm and seemed well on his way to a lucrative position when he became "bored practicing law." He had nearly decided to go into journalism as a FORTUNE writer when Yale Law offered a teaching position. After ten years...