Word: constructionistic
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...setting forth his requirements after the Burger appointment?a Southerner from the federal bench, a Republican, a strict constructionist, under 60 and someone Nixon did not personally know?the President limited his options. This ruled out judges on the higher state courts, which often possess talented jurists, men from the South's best law faculties, and U.S. Senators. Even so, the President could have come up with acceptable nominees if he had not relied so completely upon?and been served so poorly by?Mitchell...
...ludicrous robe decorated with axe-heads and carried a headsman's axe several inches taller than he is. It was enough to bring down the house. His version of "As someday it may happen that a victim must be found" included some updated lines ( that singular anomaly, the strict constructionist ), and visual effects-pulling out a picture of Nixon while decrying unscrupulous politicians...
...Strict Constructionist...
...States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He is regarded in legal circles as a liberal on civil rights issues and a conservative on matters concerning the legal rights of criminal suspects. Ron Ziegler, presidential press secretary, said yesterday that Nixon considers Judge Blackmun to be a "strict constructionist...
Seven months of activity by Nixon's first strict constructionist appointee, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, are beginning to provide some answers. Burger would prefer to have the court take a less active role than it did during the Warren years, assume a low profile, and keep hands off more decisions of other branches of Government...