Word: compelling
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...Government. Even by the distorted standards of Watergate, the case before the U.S. Supreme Court was unique in terms of law, politics and history. The President faced the lawful challenge of a Special Prosecutor he himself had appointed only seven months before. The prosecutor pleaded for a ruling to compel the release of evidence that might hasten Richard Nixon's removal from office by impeachment. The President, through his advocate, sought protection from such an order, plus the court's imprimatur on his very special view of presidential prerogatives...
Legal attacks on rights previously taken for granted continue. The Supreme Court last week turned back one of the most serious of these?a suit to compel Florida newspapers to give equal space to political candidates who have been criticized in print. By a vote of 9 to 0, the court ruled the Florida statute unconstitutional because of "its intrusion into the function of editors." Decisions as to what is or is not published, the court said, cannot be dictated by Government. But other legal problems persist. This spring a committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors warned that...
...guide, the Barron argument will be rebuffed. Chief Justice Warren Burger asked rhetorically: "If Tornillo goes out and hires a hall to castigate the Miami Herald, should the newspaper get half his time?" Justice Harry Blackmun remarked that the First Amendment was designed to protect press freedom, not to compel full debate on all issues: that is, a free press has a right to take stands that some people might consider unfair...
Since United States intervention in the October war of last year prevented Israel from gaining victory, Walzer said that "the United States must provide Israel with a surrogate for victory" by using its leverage to compel direct negotiations...
Whatever formula is devised for federal financing, wouldn't a plump public kitty encourage frivolous fringe candidates? Certainly, unless some form of "trigger" or "threshold" mechanism is devised that would compel a candidate to raise a certain amount of private money before federal funds were doled...