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...Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Criminal Law, said, "I think it's an outrage that Nixon has a role in appointing the man who might be prosecuting him. A prosecutor from another branch of government is needed...
...Dershowitz, however, was not surprised at the appointment of Jaworski, a Houston trial lawyer. "He's just the kind of man I expected Nixon to nominate--he deals in compromises and exchanges of power. He doesn't deal in the high-principled law of a man like Archibald Cox," he said...
...School constitutional scholar; Alan Dershowitz, 35, Harvard Law School criminal-law expert; Gerald Gunther, 46, Stanford Law School constitutional specialist; Philip Kurland, 51, University of Chicago constitutional expert and editor of the annual Supreme Court Review; and Arthur Schlesinger, 55, City University of New York historian and author of the forthcoming The Imperial Presidency and one-time aide to President Kennedy. The moderator was TIME Correspondent James Simon, himself the author of a recent book on the Nixon court, In His Own Image. Excerpts from the colloquy...
...DERSHOWiTZ: I would hope that policies would incline toward not allowing a man to gain immunity from prosecution simply by being elected to office...
...DERSHOWITZ: I agree. Just because it's in the courts doesn't mean that it isn't also appropriately in the House of Representatives. My own view is that it should be in both places if both institutions think it's properly before them...