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...rights activists and civil libertarians. But students of his career agree that his hallmark is conservatism in a quite different sense: he avoids propounding sweeping doctrines of how to interpret the Constitution. Instead, he often decides cases on the narrowest possible grounds. Says Alex Kozinski, a former Kennedy clerk and now a colleague on the Ninth Circuit bench: "Judge Bork is an academician. He has an overall theory of the law and the Constitution, and he tries to fit cases into that theory. Tony Kennedy is much more in the mold of Lewis Powell. He is a conservative...
...Yeah, I'm wearing my `Go to Hell, Yale' button," said Brendan Williams, a clerk at Campus Clothing. "I'm a townie, and my old man went to Harvard...
DOUGLAS GINSBURG deserved to have his nomination to the Supreme Court shot down because his drug use as a Harvard professor and a Supreme Court clerk demonstrated a fundamental disrespect for the laws it is his duty to defend. A duly elected legislature passed the measure forbidding marijuana use. No judge has ruled the law unconstitutional. Yet for some reason Ginsburg believed that he did not have to obey...
Nonetheless, Ginsburg possesses a remarkable resume for so young a man. Editor of the law review at the University of Chicago Law School, clerk for liberal Justice Thurgood Marshall, and later professor at Harvard, he left teaching to join the Justice Department as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for regulatory affairs. After a year, he went to work at the regulatory affairs executive office at the OMB, then returned to Justice to head the Antitrust Division. Impressed by his brainy efficiency, Meese recommended him to the President for the federal judiciary in 1986. There is only one quirk in the Ginsburg...
Other presumptive cases are emerging from the past. In New York City in 1959, for example, a 49-year-old Haitian-born shipping clerk fell victim to what today would be a telltale disorder: Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. "It was so unusual at the time," recalls Dr. Gordon Hennigar, who performed the postmortem and is now chairman of pathology at the Medical University of South Carolina. "AIDS is such a strong possibility that I've often thought about getting the samples and testing them...