Word: ginsburgs
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Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg smoked marijuana while he was a professor at Harvard Law School during the late 1970s and early 1980s, National Public Radio (NPR) reported yesterday...
...former head of the Justice Department's antitrust division and now a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, Ginsburg, 41, is little known to the public, and his professional performance is being scrutinized by the Senate Judiciary Committee in preparation for confirmation hearings...
...Ginsburg was before the same committee a year ago, when he was nominated for the appeals court. A Democratic source on the committee said the panel did not notice then that he had worked on the cable case while he had a sizable investment in Rogers Communications Inc. of Toronto...
...Ginsburg was assistant attorney general in charge of the anti-trust division at the Justice Department when the Reagan administration filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a Los Angeles cable television case...
...administration source said Ginsburg discussed staying off the cable case with Charles F. Rule, then his deputy in the anti-trust division, but that, "the question didn't go beyond that discussion." Justice regulations provide that where disqualification questions arise at Ginsburg's level they should be referred to the deputy attorney general for a written ruling...