Word: jaworskis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President: "He is submitting his position to the Court and asking us to agree with it." Jaworski was hardly in a position to say that Nixon might not comply, but Justice Marshall later invited St. Clair to clarify the matter...
...enforcement official with final authority over whom to prosecute and with what evidence, St. Clair argued. Hence the Special Prosecutor is a subordinate member of the Executive Branch. The courts simply have no authority to intervene in such an "intra-branch" dispute between these two officials. Referring to Jaworski as "my brother"?a courtroom courtesy?St. Clair belittled the Special Prosecutor's claim that he had been granted independent authority having the force of law by both the President and the Attorney General in the prosecution of Watergate crimes. "A Special Prosecutor with the power that my brother suggests...
Then Stewart shrewdly drew St. Clair into comparing Jaworski with a U.S. Attorney who might seek confidential documents from the President for a criminal trial. Stewart wanted to know what would happen if the President disagreed and the U.S. Attorney persisted because he was "sworn to uphold justice." "Then you would have a new U.S. Attorney," St. Clair said, intentionally eliciting a laugh from the audience. But Stewart forced St. Clair to admit that Jaworski, unlike a U.S. Attorney, could not be fired by the President without the approval of leaders of Congress?a condition that had been specifically prescribed...
...intra-branch argument by increasing the independence of the office of Special Prosecutor and by relinquishing the unilateral power to fire Jaworski...
...JAWORSKI HAS INSUFFICIENT NEED...