Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Then Stewart shrewdly drew St. Clair into comparing Jaworski with a U.S. Attorney who might seek confidential documents from the President for a criminal trial. Stewart wanted to know what would happen if the President disagreed and the U.S. Attorney persisted because he was "sworn to uphold justice." "Then you would have a new U.S. Attorney," St. Clair said, intentionally eliciting a laugh from the audience. But Stewart forced St. Clair to admit that Jaworski, unlike a U.S. Attorney, could not be fired by the President without the approval of leaders of Congress?a condition that had been specifically prescribed...
...Stewart: And until and unless he is, we have a case in controversy of a very real kind...
Several other Justices also seemed to agree that the President had, as Stewart put it, "dealt himself...
...apparent agreement with St. Clair, Powell observed, "With grand juries sitting all over the United States, and occasionally you find a politically motivated prosecutor?that's a rather far-reaching power, if it exists." Stewart, on the other hand, did not accept the St. Clair argument that if a grand jury lacks the power to indict a sitting President, it cannot name nun as an unindicted co-conspirator either: "I should think you could run the argument the other way, saying that since the President cannot be indicted, then all that can happen to him is that...
...bickering behind the bench have been surfacing regularly. Promoting harmony would not be easy for any Chief Justice now because of the court's delicate ideological balance. There are three consistent conservatives (Burger, Blackmun, Rehnquist), three liberals (Douglas, Brennan, Marshall) and three swing men who are often unpredictable (White, Stewart, Powell...