Word: cramton
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After nine months of dawdling and a misguided effort to put two outright foes of legal services on the board, President Ford finally named eleven directors who passed muster in the Senate, and last week they held their first meeting. Chaired by Cornell Law School Dean Roger Cramton, the group ranges from conservative to moderate liberal -though there are no women or representatives from poverty groups. Still, one legal-services activist pronounced himself "pleasantly surprised" after meeting the members. Said Melville Miller, director of Middlesex County Legal Services in New Jersey: "They seemed interested, open-minded and genuinely committed...
...prosecutor. That would make the prosecutor independent of the Democratic-controlled Congress as well as of the White House. But Richardson and other witnesses before the committees disputed the measure's constitutionality, arguing that only the Executive Branch is empowered to authorize and conduct prosecutions. Dean Roger C. Cramton of the Cornell Law School warned that the measure could lead to another year of court battles before the constitutional question was settled. He recommended that Congress in stead censure Nixon for "breach of faith" in firing Cox and give the President a chance to "resign honorably...
...Roger C. Cramton, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, is scheduled to fill in for Kleindienst, who was the original speaker. Kleindienst was detained in Washington by official business, his office said yesterday...
Harvard SDS had planned to picket today at the Trial Lawyers building in protest of Kleindienst's visit. Katherine J. Moos '75, a co-chairman of SDS, said yesterday that the organization would probably not picket against Cramton, although the protest was to have been, in Moos's words, "the policies Kleindienst represents ... not against Kleindienst as a person...
...Roger Cramton told the subcommittee that a statute is unnecessary because guidelines issued by John Mitchell in 1970, while he was Attorney General, have sharply reduced the number of federal subpoenas being issued to newsmen. Cramton is correct, arithmetically. Early in the Nixon Administration, such subpoenas were being served by the dozen. They are now a relative rarity, but the threat of compelled testimony still exists in any reporting situation, and there is nothing to prevent a future Attorney General from scrapping the current rules. Nor does the present policy bind other federal agencies...