Word: edwin
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...records something important about Reagan's Government at this critical moment. The bright colors have faded. The sheer joy of possessing power has lost some luster. The men and women in Reagan's Cabinet are, with the possible exceptions of Education Secretary William Bennett and Attorney General Edwin Meese, centrists devoted to preserving and enlarging the beachhead won in the first term. Their passion has cooled with experience, extreme ideology has given way to accommodation. The controversy that followed Haig, Watt and Donovan has been replaced by the solid sense of Shultz, Hodel and Brock. If the Cabinet members...
When the Justice Department fined E.F. Hutton $2 million in May for engaging in a complex check-kiting scheme, many critics complained that Attorney General Edwin Meese had not applied to executive-suite crime the standard that the Reagan Administration invokes for less well-heeled violators. Even though Hutton pleaded guilty to 2,000 separate charges of mail and wire fraud, the Government did not charge any individuals with wrongdoing. Former Attorney General Griffin Bell, who was hired by Hutton to conduct an independent, internal investigation of the case, is expected to set the record straight when he releases...
...conservatives, he is a staunch moralist determined to see that the U.S. legal system protects the nation's traditional values. To progressives, he is an overreaching ideologue intent on using the Justice Department to dismantle two decades of legal advances. After just six months in office, Edwin Meese has proved to be one of the most blunt-spoken and activist Attorneys General since the New Deal. At his ceremonial swearing-in last March, the country's chief lawyer made his new role clear: "This department will be fiercely independent in . . . upholding the law. But this is not inconsistent with conscientiously...
...Attorney General Edwin Meese defended the Justice Department decision to protect Presser even if it means springing Uncle Allen. "Nobody's tried to cover this up," he told the Washington Post. "If anything, the prosecution has shown that they have faced up to their responsibilities to the accused and the court." Earlier this summer, Presser himself escaped indictment on the ghost-employee case when Justice officials ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict him. They also cited Presser's role as an informant...
Almost simultaneously in Washington, Attorney General Edwin Meese III asked the Supreme Court to overturn its 1973 "Roe v. Wade" ruling legalizing abortions nationwide. Meese has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the decision that gave women the Constitutional right to end their own pregnancies...