Word: jurists
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...Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights doctrine...
...among them Roland Dumas in his former post as Foreign Minister, Pierre Beregovoy as Finance Minister, Pierre Joxe as Interior Minister and Jack Lang as Culture Minister. The novelty is provided by a limited number of non-Socialists, including Centrist Senator Michel Durafour as Civil Service Minister, Supreme Court Jurist Pierre Arpaillange as Justice Minister and Businessman Roger Fauroux as Industry and Foreign Trade Minister. Last week senior Mitterrand aides telephoned eight members of the outgoing conservative Cabinet to sound them out about serving under Rocard. All refused. Mitterrand, however, believes that after new elections many centrists and even moderate...
...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...