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THURGOOD MARSHALL, 66, a Democrat appointed by Lyndon Johnson in 1967, won a score of cases while representing the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund before the Supreme Court prior to 1962, but now finds himself in the Burger Court's liberal minority. The court's best raconteur, who sometimes likes to jive groups of whites by lapsing ostentatiously into a broad black dialect. Has collected an informal panel of law professors and judges to help choose his clerks, who as a result are now usually the best in the building. Still impatient with legal complexities, preferring to go to the right...
...least as an implied power, an unqualified right to maintain the confidentiality of his conversations with his advisers. Only he can decide which conversations he will make public, and the courts cannot challenge that decision. It is a political decision and, if abused, the only remedy is impeachment. Burger and White wondered if the subpoenaed conversations did not at least have to deal with official duties, and St. Clair agreed. Powell then elicited the catch-22 kind of circuitous reasoning that characterizes much of the St. Clair argument...
...implication was that the high court's liberal majority, then headed by Earl Warren, would strike down any corporate merger that federal trustbusters challenged on any grounds at all. Lately, however, the court, now including four conservative judges appointed by President Nixon, among them Chief Justice Warren Burger, has been shifting to a considerably more permissive view of mergers...
...Warren Burger's Supreme Court is winding up its current term with a flourish. Driving to clear the court calendar by July 8, when they face the momentous confrontation between the President and the Watergate prosecutors, the Justices last week handed down rulings in half a dozen important cases. All of them involved the First Amendment right of free expression. The nation's press may well be most deeply affected by the Tornillo decision sharply limiting citizens' right of reply to critical editorials (see cover story page...
...feels that Government would do better to abandon the field altogether, filed a brief opinion gloomily noting that the court had once again fallen back into "the mire of case-by-case determinations of obscenity." Brennan's I-told-you-so was aimed mainly at Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote the previous porn opinions that encouraged local courts and prosecutors to take off after whatever books, movies and plays seemed offensive when judged by "contemporary community standards...