Word: jurists
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...William Rehnquist is the Lone Ranger no longer. To his brethren he will henceforth be known as "the chief." Last week President Reagan announced that Rehnquist will succeed Warren Burger, 78, who will step down after 17 years as the highest jurist in the land when the court's term ends next month. On the first Monday in October, when the nine Justices emerge from behind the red curtain to take the high bench, William Hubbs Rehnquist will become the 16th Chief Justice of the United States...
DIED. Carl Schmitt, 96, controversial German legal and political philosopher, sometimes called the Crown Jurist of the Third Reich, whose pro-authoritarian theories of government profoundly influenced the course of his country; in Plettenberg, West Germany. From 1929 to 1933, he provided legal and theoretical justifications for the Hindenburg government's dictatorial emergency decree system. Schmitt warned against a Nazi takeover, but his right-wing views became identified with the movement, and when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Schmitt opportunistically switched with the tide, becoming Prussian state councilor under Hermann Goring. He avoided prosecution as a war criminal...
...quiet demeanor certainly does not match his extraodinarily rapid and successful rise from scion of a rich Philadelphia family to president of Harvard, in 1971, at the young age of 40. Bok is the son of preeminent liberal Pennsylvania jurist, now an associate justice of the state supreme court, and the grandson of Edward W. Bok, the first editor of Ladies Home Journal...
Justice White, 67, a former pro-football running back who outmuscles his clerks at pickup basketball games in the court's gymnasium, was long known as a careful jurist who heeded precedent and avoided substituting his personal views. He has the intellect and force to be a natural leader, but he keeps his own counsel, rarely opening up to his colleagues or even his clerks. Lately White seems to be moving to the right. He authored a series of conservative decisions last term on procedural rights for criminals, affirmative action and free speech. White voted with the conservative wing...
...lobby." A special prosecutor last month cleared Meese of any criminal wrongdoing in connection with giving federal appointments to friends who had lent him money. Even so, he would probably encounter confirmation problems if nominated for the court. White House aides believe that Reagan would pick an experienced jurist before choosing an old friend...