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...complexity of the cases helps explain the splintering, however, and it is hardly unique to the Burger Court. The tremendous work load and end-of-term rush to judgment leave little time for collegiality. Nor are the divisions necessarily bad. Says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther: "I disagree with the assumption that the country is best off with Justices who have a simple, predictable framework. More often than not those courts have been wrong...
...dissent, Justice Lewis Powell attacked the decision for "vague and sweeping language" and suggested that it would create "a national civil service system" run by judges. Another critic, John Gunther, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, expressed concern that the ruling might produce "a government of eunuchs." Said he: "I don't see how you can carry out policy that way. People go to the polls for a change. That's not just one person. It's staff as well...
...tool of persuasion. ''Votes change in the writing perhaps more often than in conference,'' says Justice Byron R. White. Yet Burger's colleagues find that drafts of his opinions often carry mistakes or gaps of logic; of the final product, Stanford Constitutional Expert Gerald Gunther says, ''Only in rare opinions do you get a carefully thought-out, well-developed argument...
Dick Howard. ''Most of them are inde pendent pragmatists who take each case as it comes.'' Says Stanford's Gunther...
...Gunther Volk...