Word: eastland
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...saved his real shockers for Cabinet colleagues. When an old friend, Justice Department Spokesman Terry Eastland, was fired by Meese, Bennett declared bluntly, "Terry Eastland's an excellent man. He can join me at the department any time...
Battle fatigue may be part of Meese's problem, though he did not see it in himself even as he fired his spokesman Terry Eastland a fortnight ago. It was a bizarre performance. Eastland, a respected conservative, had no inkling that Meese was unhappy with him. Summoned to the Attorney General's office, he walked in innocently, the man with the longest tour at Meese's side of any of the senior staff. It was as if Meese did not know him. And so Eastland became the eleventh top aide to quit or be fired from Justice in two months...
Ginsburg was an official of Compatibility Research "between 1965 and 1968," before returning to Cornell, said Justice Department spokesman Terry Eastland...
Justice Department Spokesman Terry Eastland contends that the naysayers have misinterpreted his boss, who only meant to stress that those who believe a decision is wrong may seek out legitimate ways to overturn it. Eastland points to the example of civil rights groups, which for years submitted briefs to the court urging the reversal of Plessy vs. Ferguson, the 1896 decision upholding segregation. Meese has made clear that he believes issues such as abortion and the rights of the accused remain similarly unsettled...
...Reagan Administration, the battle is likely to intensify. "Sometime in the 1930s we recognized that the Supreme Court is the final interpreter of the Constitution," says Columbia University Law Professor Louis Henkin. "Mr. Meese is trying to change the system % accepted by the American people." But times change, counters Eastland, and so does the court majority. "We're in a constitutional era where decision after decision is very close. It is a period of considerable ferment." Ferment indeed. "Mr. Meese must sit up nights thinking 'I haven't provoked the legal profession in recent weeks,' " says University of Michigan...