Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decisively upholding the special prosecutors who have bedeviled Reagan's second term. In the process, it also cleared the way for the upcoming trials of the Iran- contra Four: Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim. Says Michigan Democratic Senator Carl Levin, who sponsored the independent- counsel legislation: "It's a slam-dunk decision...
...prosecutors could have been the ones who got slammed and dunked. If the court had overturned the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, it would have reversed the perjury conviction of former Reagan Aide Michael Deaver, who was prosecuted by Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. But what really had Washington holding its breath was the prospect that a reversal might put into question evidence collected by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh in the first months of his Iran-contra investigation, before he took a backup appointment from the Justice Department. The ruling also frees Prosecutor James McKay, who earlier obtained...
...current investigations, the inquiry into whether Assistant Attorney General Theodore Olson gave false testimony to Congress in 1983 in a dispute concerning the Environmental Protection Agency. Olson, supported by the Justice Department, had argued that the law violated the separation-of-powers principle by providing for independent counsel to be chosen by a special three-judge court. The broad scope of special prosecutors' powers, he contended, made them "principal officers" that the Constitution says only the President may appoint. In January, a federal appeals panel that heard his case overturned...
...ruling Rehnquist noted that the law gives the Executive Branch a measure of control in the selection process, for instance, by allowing the Attorney General to decide when special prosecutors are required and whether to dismiss them for "good cause." For that reason, Rehnquist held, independent counsel is one of the "inferior officers" that the Constitution says Congress may allow department heads or judges to appoint...
...Justices gave qualified approval to providing federal money to religious groups that counsel teenage girls against premarital sex and abortion. But they also found that some groups receiving the money had violated the separation of church and state by mixing religious doctrine into their counseling. Writing for a 5-to-4 majority, Rehnquist ruled that in such instances the solution would not be to overturn the law but to disqualify the particular groups...