Word: lawyerly
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...especially not the Attorney General." Among Meese's misdeeds cited in the report: doing favors for chum E. Robert Wallach, who is awaiting trial for his part in the Wedtech scandal, and participating in decisions on companies in which he owned stock. To no one's surprise, Meese's lawyer called the report a "travesty of justice," and former boss Ronald Reagan deemed it "unwarranted...
...case decided by the Supreme Court last week, which stemmed from a 1987 Kansas City cocaine bust, the sentencing chart called for a 15-to-21- month jail term for defendant John Mistretta. The federal district court had given him 18 months, but Mistretta's lawyer argued that the sentencing system violated the Constitution by blurring the separation of powers among the branches of Government. Congress had, for instance, given both legislative and executive functions to a commission within the judicial branch. The commission's recommendations have the force of law unless Congress vetoes them within six months. Justice Harry...
...Carlson to reporting and editing stints at the Washington Weekly, Esquire magazine and the New Republic. Joining TIME last year, Carlson started right off writing about the 1988 campaign, including stories on the presidential conventions. She had, she recalls, no trouble trading law for the fourth estate. "A lawyer works on cases that won't be settled for years," says Carlson. "TIME has a deadline every week...
Some critics of the pro-choice strategy argue that efforts to lobby the court may do more harm than good. "A letter-writing campaign is a wonderful thing to do if you're trying to persuade Congress or the Missouri legislature," says an experienced Supreme Court lawyer. "It's not what you do to the Supreme Court of the United States." But NOW President Molly Yard counters that "the court is influenced by public opinion, as is every other political institution in this country." The truth of that claim, like the future of abortion rights...
Philosopher, lawyer, teacher, former tackle for the Williams College "Ephmen" and compulsive thrasher in smooth waters, Bennett has clapped a restrainer on his formidable tongue until the confirmation hearings. They are expected to go his way, despite a legion of ruffled academics left from his 3 1/2 iconoclastic years at Education. He suggested, among other things, that tony universities were not giving students their big money's worth...