Word: jurists
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...federal judge and former law professor, who is as amiable in person as he is controversial in his concepts, will begin three days of intensive grilling by the 14 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bork and his supporters will argue that he is a fair, open-minded, brilliant jurist whose philosophy of judicial restraint represents a reasonable antidote to 30 years of excessive social activism by the court. His foes, led by Chairman Joseph Biden, will seek to show that he is a right-wing radical whose opinions and writings reveal a reading of the Constitution so constricted...
Unlike the right-wing activists who hail Bork for his ideological bent, Reagan and his men have gone out of their way to present the nominee as a mainstream jurist who decides cases with a completely open mind. "If you want someone with Justice Powell's detachment and statesmanship," said the President in a speech last July, "you can't do better than Judge Bork." The White House distributed to key Senators a 70-page briefing book outlining many of Bork's rulings and proclaiming that the judge was a model practitioner of "judicial restraint...
...selecting a leading conservative jurist, the President hopes to shape the legal balance into the next century. -- Bork' s personal style and temperament are seemingly at odds with his strict constructionist philosophy. -- The seven Democratic presidential contenders fire mostly blanks in a Firing Line debate. -- A Texas boxcar turns into a grisly coffin...
Since Frankfurter's death in 1965, his reputation as a combative and principled jurist has endured. And so have reservations about his penchant for exerting policy influence in questionable ways. The latest fuss concerns his actions in the historic 1954 school-integration case Brown v. Board of Education. Philip Elman, 69, a former Frankfurter law clerk who served as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, says that while Brown was in progress Frankfurter regularly shared with him the confidential views of fellow Justices, which Elman later used when preparing Government briefs in the case...
...arguing real lawsuits. On Divorce Court, the litigants are portrayed by actors, and the testimony, heavily spiced with tales of adultery and kinky sex, is scripted. The attorneys, however, are played by real lawyers, and the decision is left up to the judge, William B. Keene, a retired California jurist. On Superior Court, all the participants are played by actors, and the proceedings -- including the final decision by Judge William D. Burns Jr., a Los Angeles municipal-court commissioner -- are totally scripted to reflect the outcome of similar real-life cases. The Judge, with a title character played by Actor...