Word: burger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seated among the few morning spectators in the London law court was a tall, familiar American figure. As the head of a select group of U.S. jurists observing British justice at work during a two-week Anglo-American exchange program, Chief Justice Warren Burger was on a busman's holiday. On a London street a senior British official was pleased to find Burger sufficiently briefed to congratulate him on a very recent appointment. The official, in turn, offered his congratulations to Burger as just about the only man in Washington who had not lost his job in the past...
...shield Executive officers from prosecution for crime." In another case requiring newsmen to answer grand jury questions, White, again for the majority, indicated that "in proper circumstances a subpoena could be issued to the President of the United States." And in the Pentagon papers case, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger criticized the New York Times for failing "to perform one of the basic and simple duties of every citizen" when it became aware of stolen property. "That duty ... was to report forthwith to responsible officers. This duty rests on taxi drivers, Justices and the New York Times." It is because...
...Chief Justice Burger's statement that "it is neither realistic nor constitutionally sound that the people of Maine or Mississippi accept public depiction of conduct found tolerable in Las Vegas or New York City" might be quite logical...
...American serviceman with a mission to protect the freedom of America against those who would take it from us, I find the greatest "clear and present danger" to that freedom in the Burger court decision on pornography and its far-reaching implications for repressive legislation...
...Perry Mason. Every day you wonder just a little more how Hamilton Burger even won re-election as District Attorney. Perry, Della, Paul, Gertie, and Lt. Tragg are on every day to bring justice to another murderer. Channel...