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There were also ironies aplenty in Reagan's choice of O'Connor. As a true-blue conservative, he had been widely expected to select a rigidly doctrinaire jurist in order to stamp his own political ideology on the court. Instead, he picked a meticulous legal thinker whose devotion to precedent and legal process holds clear priority over her personal politics, which are Republican conservative...
Much of the furor was based on O'Connor's votes in the Arizona senate. Far more important than her stand on abortion-an issue on which virtually no current woman jurist could fully satisfy the New Right-was whether she was qualified to serve on the Supreme Court. On that point, legal scholars acquainted with her past and lawyers who had worked with her in Arizona were in wide agreement: while she had much to learn about federal judicial issues, she was a brilliant lawyer with a capacity to learn quickly. Indeed, her legislative background gives...
Britain as a whole was swept up in a wave of shock and recrimination. In the House of Commons, Home Secretary William Whitelaw reported on a personal visit to Brixton, conducted during a lull in the rioting, and announced that a respected and nonpartisan peer, former Jurist Lord Scarman, would investigate the causes of the violence. Firebrand M.P. Enoch Powell, a Tory turned Ulster Unionist and a longtime opponent of nonwhite immigration to Britain, warned that "you have seen nothing yet." Five M.P.s demanded "a vigorous policy" of subsidized repatriation of nonwhite immigrants. The ruckus spread as far away...
DIED. Edward Russell, 85, British military jurist and author who prosecuted all war crimes trials in the British zone of Germany after World War II, and resigned as assistant judge advocate general in 1954 in order to publish his controversial book The Scourge of the Swastika, in which he condemned Nazi atrocities as an outgrowth of the master-race doctrine; in Hastings, England...
...private jurist program resembles arbitration, a widely used procedure that calls on a non-judge to resolve disputes typically involving labor contracts. But the California procedure has some features that arbitration does not. Examples: the judge must adhere to regular procedural and substantive aspects of law, and decisions can be appealed...