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...minute America's best-known jurist bangs his gavel, onlookers in the nation's most famous courtroom attentively come to order. Not the U.S. Supreme Court, silly -- The People's Court, with 11 million viewers daily, featuring Judge Joseph Wapner and his 30-minute brand of homespun jurisprudence. Now in A View from the Bench (Simon & Schuster; $17.95), the judge describes the evolution of his electronic philosophy...
...many a batter on the verge of striking out: he stopped going for the home run and tried for the political equivalent of a clean single. Rather than again choosing a hard-line ideologue to replace the moderate Lewis Powell, the President last week selected the kind of jurist many of his pragmatic supporters felt he should have chosen at the start. Indeed, he picked the very man they had been urging from the beginning: Anthony Kennedy, a thoroughly experienced appeals-court judge noted both for his mainstream conservative principles and for the open-minded way he applies those principles...
...more substantial jurist might have better withstood the slow drip of corrosive revelations about his earlier life. But so little was known about Ginsburg that it was easy for minor matters to grow into major questions about his fitness to serve. His admission that he smoked pot should not have been an automatic disqualification. If it were, the ranks of Government might be devastated. The National Institute on Drug Abuse has reported that more than 23% of the adult population has used marijuana, including a staggering 64% of those ages 18 to 25. Indeed, two Democratic presidential candidates, Albert Gore...
...Helms said he felt "very comfortable" after meeting the 51-year-old jurist from Sacramento, Calif...
DOUGLAS GINSBURG President Reagan said upon announcing his intention to nominate the former Law School professor to the Supreme Court, is a jurist who remembers "not just the rights of criminals but, equally important, the rights of the victims of crime and the rights of society." It seemed odd when Reagan chose to so identify his second choice to replace Justice Lewis Powell. After all, Ginsburg's academic specialty is anti-trust law and he never has written on constitutional law, let alone criminal procedure. Had the president spoken with his nominee and discerned his views on Miranda rights...