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After a period as clerk for then Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Breyer moved on to congressional staff work. It was his proudest achievement there to be architect of the plan by which Congress deregulated the airline industry in 1978. He has got more mixed grades for his work as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which established the federal guidelines that require judges in all parts of the country to hand down roughly equivalent sentences for comparable crimes. Many judges are furious over the guidelines, which they complain force them to issue sentences that do not take into...
...contrast, Breyer looked more and more attractive. His chief problem, the nanny factor, was the least troublesome. When he was under consideration for Byron White's seat last year, Breyer had been snagged for unpaid Social Security taxes for a cleaning lady. He subsequently paid the taxes, only to have the IRS later determine that he had not in fact owed the money; the IRS refunded...
...clear front runner, a mood of frustration set in at the White House. One official called the previous 72 hours "three days of torture." Finally, after deciding that the questions hanging over Arnold's health were serious enough to disqualify him, Clinton was ready at last to give Breyer his O.K. He called the judge, their first contact since their uncomfortable meeting last year, then got on the phone to the two losing candidates. Babbitt was able soon after to joke with friends about his experience. "I knew I had been cut," he told them, "when George Stephanopoulos referred...
...Breyer, 55, has come back from nowhere before. At the time of the 1980 elections, he was one of a group of Jimmy Carter's federal court appointees who were still awaiting confirmation when the Democrats lost the Senate and the White House. The other nominees were left in limbo. Largely with the help of Ted Kennedy, Breyer alone was approved by the Senate, where both Democrats and Republicans knew him from his days with the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which Kennedy was then the chairman...
...read Proust in French and can hold forth knowledgeably on the merits of a bottle of Chateau Latour, Breyer is the son of a San Francisco lawyer. With his mother's encouragement, he attended Stanford University instead of Harvard, where she was afraid he would lose himself in books. Before going on to Harvard Law School, he spent two years at Oxford. His ! enduring affection for things British is evident in everything from his tailoring to the trace of a British accent that sometimes inflects his speech to his wife Joanna, a clinical psychologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...