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Solicitor General and former Dean of the Harvard Law School (1946-67). Irwin Griswold, responded to this position in the government's brief with the astounding argument that the composition of local boards does not "deprive the orders of the local boards of legal effect because...they are acts of a de facto political authority." In other words, draft hoards are above their own laws...
...argument to the Supreme Court last week, U.S. Solicitor General Erwin Griswold insisted that radical protests within the U.S. are "interrelated" with security threats from abroad. The Government was merely gathering intelligence to protect the nation, he said, not deliberately seeking evidence for criminal prosecutions. If each case had to be submitted to a judge to get a warrant, Griswold added, "the Government would have to disclose sensitive and highly secret information." Judges, he said, are not as qualified as the Attorney General to make the "subtle inferences" involved. Even though the Attorney General might abuse his power, that...
...objection is that the lawyers for a class are sometimes the chief beneficiaries of a suit, taking a sizable percentage of the total judgment as a fee, while individual members of the class are entitled to only a few dollars each. A major worry, voiced by Solicitor General Erwin Griswold and by Chief Justice Warren Burger, is that the increasing number of class actions will compound the problems of already overburdened courts...
...Quick Ruling. Griswold urged the court to establish a standard that would allow the Government to prevent newspapers from publishing classified material that he claimed would do "great and irreparable harm" to the nation's security. In lower courts, the Government had alleged that willful disclosure of secret information violated both the Espionage Act and an executive order dealing with classified material. Arguing for the Times, Alexander Bickel, the polished Yale law professor, contended that the Government had failed to show there was a "direct and immediate link" between "the fact of publication" and any "grave event" that endangered...
Endangered Negotiations. The Post's scenario before the Court of Appeals in Washington was slightly different. Solicitor General Griswold argued that the "integrity of the institution of the presidency" was at stake in the Post case and implied that if the press were free to publish classified material on general principle, such sensitive international negotiations as the SALT talks might be endangered. The court was unimpressed and ruled 7-2 that Griswold had failed to make a case. The next day the Government lost its bid for a second review, again 7-2. The majority opinion declared tartly...