Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...destroyed) evidence in a criminal case, lied to the top Justice Department officials investigating those crimes, ordered the payment of hush money to convicted criminals, offered a prestigious job to a judge who was presiding over a case in which Nixon was intensely interested, fired a special prosecutor without legal cause, and directly challenged the very foundations of the U.S. system of justice. Had Lasky really found another American President who did all that, he would have had a book that was genuinely worthy of being a bestseller...
...they are without direction, which is very dangerous. Also, they contradict each other quite often. They are so preoccupied with finding the guilty that they have no time to do what has to be done. Everything that has happened during the emergency is happening now without the legal sanction of a constitutional emergency-arrests, press controls, everything. I would not use the word dictatorship because it has been bandied about far too much. But if my rule was a dictatorship, then this is a dictatorship...
Late in the week, Sanjay himself was having legal problems. He made his first court appearance and was mobbed by pushing, shoving and shouting young men. The judge granted him bail in one of several cases against him, but Sanjay is expected to be a regular visitor in courts in months ahead. Says one official: "The investigators have more information than they know what to do with...
...support environmentalists and safety critics, the bill also orders the N.R.C. to pay the legal expenses-how much is so far unspecified-of groups fighting nuclear-power plants on environmental or safety grounds. Thus the bill has been carefully drafted to give something to everybody: more power for state governments, the promise of faster construction for utilities, federal money for their enemies...
Dworkin's theories have created shock waves among jurisprudential scholars, and much of the response is sharply critical. Says Duke University Law Professor George Christie: "Dworkin misconceives what legal decision making is all about. He views it as the search for right answers rather than a process for producing adequate justifications for legal decisions. Actual cases are simply too complicated to abstract into clear rights and clear duties...