Word: ervine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ervin committee had hoped that Nixon would file a motion to quash the subpoenas, a step that would put the burden of proof on the President's attorneys. Instead, Nixon's men elected to ignore all the subpoenas, simply issuing a letter of refusal and leaving the burden of legal initiative on the committee and on Cox. Immediately, the committee, voting by hand on camera in the hearing room, moved to sue the President for the tapes and documents...
...irony, Cox's petition was heard by Judge John Sirica, who tried the original Watergate Seven last winter and was as instrumental as anyone in breaking open the case. The judge called for briefs to be submitted next week on Cox's petition. Over the weekend, the Ervin committee staff was laboring to prepare its case regarding the right to possession of the tapes and documents, and would probably file it in federal court at the end of the week. Thus on two fronts the constitutional battle was joined...
There is a distinction between the claims of the Ervin committee and of Cox's office. "The President has a stronger, more legitimate interest in refusing to hand the tapes over to the Senate committee," according to Scott Bice, associate dean of the University of Southern California Law Center. "The committee is not concerned with specific crimes but with finding legislative means to prevent those practices in the future. Bad campaign practices can be known without knowing if A or B is guilty." Cox is a member of the Executive Branch and technically subordinate to the President. But since...
...nation's foremost constitutional authorities, University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan Wright. A prolific scholar and ambitious lawyer, Wright, despite his relatively youthful age of 45, is by no means overmatched against his twin adversaries Archibald Cox, Harvard law professor and special Watergate prosecutor, and Senator Sam Ervin, the constitutional doyen of the Congress...
Divorced from his first wife, Wright is remarried and has five children. He works long hours but always retires early to get a solid nine hours of sleep. That regimen may be sorely tested before his tangles with Cox, Ervin & Co. on behalf of Richard Nixon are concluded...