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Alone among public institutions, the U.S. Supreme Court has remained an Olympian myth: nine sages in black robes, unelected, unreviewable, pronouncing the last word on the law. Throughout its 190-year existence, the court's decision-making process has enjoyed a special immunity from public scrutiny. Even during the '70s, in the post-Watergate era of full disclosure, its white marble temple stood as a sanctuary, its inner workings Washington's last well-kept secret...
...Chief Justice Warren Burger's Supreme Court what he and Carl Bernstein had done for Richard Nixon's White House in All the President's Men and The Final Days. Fortified by a $350,000 advance from Simon & Schuster, Woodward and Armstrong spent two years reading cases and interviewing Justices and more than 170 former court clerks, top-level law school graduates who serve as confidential aides for a year or two. The sources not only supplied the authors with blow-by-blow descriptions of the court's in camera deliberations during the first seven years...
...ways. But we made a scrupulous effort to be non-judgmental." Indeed, the authors use a "just-the-facts-Ma'am" style; though the facts are not attributed, they novelistically include the Justices' innermost thoughts. In the book's final pages, Justice Stevens ponders his first year (1976) on the court. He finds himself "accustomed to watching his colleagues make pragmatic rather than principled decisions-shading the facts, twisting the law, warping logic to reconcile the unreconcilable." Even if it was not what Stevens had anticipated, the book says, "it was the reality...
...Committee member and, in 1968, chairman of the National Front. By then a liberal tied with the independent-minded regime of Alexander Dubcek, Kriegel and his colleagues were arrested by the Russians during the 1968 Soviet invasion and held captive in Moscow. Expelled from the Communist Party within a year of his return, he joined other dissidents in 1977 in sponsoring the "Charter 77" human rights petition...
...gives him a $799,000 fee for negotiating a settlement in a dispute involving a fleet of trolley cars claimed to be defective. Because the cars kept jumping the track, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (M.B.T.A.) wanted them modified by the manufacturer, Boeing Vertol Co. In September, after a year of futile negotiations, Schwartz, a products-liability expert, was hired. Before the M.B.T.A. and Schwartz could agree what his remuneration would be, he extracted from Boeing Vertol a settlement calling for $40 million in cash, including the sizable attorney's fee, in addition to other concessions. The cars originally...