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...asked Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, "wouldn't you concede that the historic role of the Comptroller General is really that of an employee of the Legislative Branch?" No, indicated Ross, the Comptroller was simply a numbers cruncher, "a computator of statutory formulas." Justice William Rehnquist seemed skeptical. Harking back to his days as a Justice Department official in the Nixon Administration, he got a laugh from the courtroom by recalling that "if the Administration wanted a favorable opinion, it went to the Attorney General. If Congress wanted a favorable opinion, it went to the Comptroller General...
...majority, Justice O'Connor acknowledged that the decision would cause plaintiffs to lose when "evidence is ambiguous," but she concluded that the "Constitution requires us to tip" toward protecting speech. Justice John Paul Stevens did not see the balance that way. In a dissent joined by Warren Burger, William Rehnquist and Byron White, he called the decision a "blueprint for character assassination...
...Circuit. Ostensibly, the fight is over a handful of long-blocked appellate court nominations, but both sides acknowledge that it is really about how the Senate will approach any upcoming vacancies on the Supreme Court, the first of which may open within weeks since ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist is expected to step down. The outcome could also help determine, maybe for a generation or more, what limits will exist on the power of a President whose party also controls the Congress...
...intent of the framers." Last week Moderate Justice John Paul Stevens weighed in with remarks to a group of Chicago lawyers, attacking elements of the Meese-Reagan "original intent" vision because it "overlooks the importance of subsequent events in the development of our law." Even Conservative Justice William Rehnquist spoke out last week, though more cryptically, when he criticized Franklin Roosevelt for his "quite unnecessary" zeal in trying to pack the Supreme Court with supporters...
Whatever modern relevance Rehnquist may have been suggesting, other critics charge that the Reaganauts, having failed to get Congress to enact the conservatives' social agenda, are seeking to build a court lineup that will do the job, just as liberals did in earlier years when they found Congress resistant to their goals. "If the Reagan counterrevolution is to be successful," says Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, "it must be done in the judiciary. That's their highest priority for the next three years...