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...This is Warren Burger talking, not the U.S. Supreme Court," Dershowitz said. "Burger is out of the mainstream of the Court on most issues...
...Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, said yesterday that Chief Justice Warren E. Burger has overstated the problem of the Supreme Court's expanding workload and called Burger's assertions "fallacious...
Laurence H. Tribe, professor of Law, called the Freund proposal "ill-conceived" and supported Dershowitz's view that Burger has overemphasized the present problem. "It's easy to get hysterical over a workload," Tribe said...
...ended his right to refuse to testify on the grounds of selfincrimination. He can now plead that Fifth Amendment right only if his answers could be used against him in some future state prosecution, which seems to be a rather remote possibility. Thus, scholars like-Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz expect "a gushing forth" of new evidence about Watergate from the trials...
...addition, private citizens claiming injury because of Watergate activities may well sue Nixon for damages. Dershowitz anticipates a number of lawsuits against the former President from "people who were surveilled, audited, wiretapped and so on." The plaintiffs will doubtless seek to subpoena evidence and force testimony from Nixon...