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...Clair: Yes, in a sense...
...Clair: In the sense that this court has the obligation to determine the law. The President also has an obligation to carry out his constitutional duties...
...Clair: This is being submitted to this court for its guidance and judgment with respect to the law. The President, on the other hand, has his obligations under the Constitution...
...question of compliance was not before the court. The Justices, operating on the longstanding presumption of acquiescence to their rulings, were properly more interested in the fundamental legal issues. They showed their interest by barraging the three attorneys with nearly 350 questions. Since the heaviest burden rested on St. Clair to prove the Sirica order invalid, the most provocative questions were aimed at the President's lawyer. In the process, St. Clair sometimes seemed trapped in the illogic of his position. His major claims...
...President is the nation's chief law-enforcement official with final authority over whom to prosecute and with what evidence, St. Clair argued. Hence the Special Prosecutor is a subordinate member of the Executive Branch. The courts simply have no authority to intervene in such an "intra-branch" dispute between these two officials. Referring to Jaworski as "my brother"?a courtroom courtesy?St. Clair belittled the Special Prosecutor's claim that he had been granted independent authority having the force of law by both the President and the Attorney General in the prosecution of Watergate crimes. "A Special Prosecutor...