Word: laws
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Outside activity should be the very least of Burger's problems as Chief Justice. More important will be his ability to run the court and persuade his colleagues to accept his own traditional concept of the law, particularly in the controversial field of criminal justice. "A trial court," he likes to say to explain his point, "is like a three-legged stool: a judge, a prosecutor and a defense lawyer. Take anything away and the stool topples over." It is his feeling that the prosecutor has been so weakened by court decisions that the stool has in effect toppled over...
...time, the main reason for Nixon's choice?Burger's stand on law and order ?may seem far less important than it does today. New issues and new problems almost certainly will arise, and may very well overshadow the controversies of today. The question before the court of the '70s may not be criminal rights but citizen rights. Columbia Political Scientist Alan Westin, for instance, sees an impending collision between the old system of government, which depends upon political parties and established bureaucracy, and the new demands for participation by the poor and the powerless. There will be constant...
...daily at 4 in the morning to deliver newspapers, and he both edited the school newspaper and served as student council president. After that he worked days in an insurance office while attending, at night, the University of Minnesota and then the St. Paul College of Law, from which he graduated magna cum laude. "We had enough to eat and enough to wear," says a younger brother, Paul. "But I suppose we'd be considered deprived today...
After two years of college and four of law school, Burger went to work in 1931 for the well-regarded law firm of Boyesen, Otis and Faricy. It was the start of a long legal career. He then married Elvera Stromberg, whom he had met when they were both taking extension courses at Minnesota. They have two children: a son, Wade, now 32 and a real estate man in northern Virginia, and a daughter, Margaret, 22, a Montessori school student teacher...
Willing to Gamble. Theoretically, the limit should work no great hardship on the Administration. The figure is exactly what Nixon requested in his formal budget presentation. The catch is that spending during a fiscal year is almost always substantially above the estimate made earlier. If the House bill becomes law, any unexpected but necessary increase would force a curtailment elsewhere in a budget that is already relatively lean in domestic areas. Thus the restriction could severely limit the Administration's ability to deal with emergencies and handle such "uncontrollable spending" as interest on the national debt and Social Security...