Word: prosecutors
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...years ago this August, several weeks after Congress had extended the independent counsel law for another five years, a three-judge panel appointed by Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist made a decision that marked the beginning of the end for the current statute. The judges replaced Whitewater prosecutor Robert B. Fiske Jr, who had angered Senate Republicans by concluding there was no basis for a criminal investigation into the president's failed real estate venture, with a largely unknown judge with no prosecutorial experience. Before he would come to the same conclusion as Fiske four and a half...
...years ago this August, several weeks after Congress had extended the independent counsel law for another five years, a three-judge panel appointed by Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist made a decision that marked the beginning of the end for the current statute. The judges replaced Whitewater prosecutor Robert B. Fiske Jr., who had angered Senate Republicans by concluding there was no basis for a criminal investigation into the president's failed real estate venture, with a largely unknown judge with no prosecutorial experience. Before he would come to the same conclusion as Fiske four and a half...
...independent counsel statute, there are some in Congress who would rather just see the law expire instead of revising it. This would be a mistake. The basic principle of government oversight on which the law is based is a sound one and it is clear that an independent prosecutor law of some sort is necessary...
...independent counsel statute, there are some in Congress who would rather just see the law expire instead of revising it. This would be a mistake. The basic principle of government oversight on which the law is based is a sound one and it is clear that an independent prosecutor law of some sort is necessary...
...wake of Diallo's death, the people of New York looked to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to reach out to the victim's parents and denounce the atrocity. Yet Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and staunch defended of the NYPD, has not followed the lead of the Attorney General and others who have condemned the police officers for their actions. Instead, Guiliani points to N.Y. City's declining crime rate as an implicit justification for the city's aggressive crime fighting...