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...been fighting federal regulation of strip mining told the press that he would pass a good bill if "the neurotics and psychotics would just trust us." And T.V.A. bureaucrats, instead of sympathizing with people dispossessed by the agency's activities, trumpeted their own bureaucratic righteousness. T.V.A.'s chief solicitor said, "The story of these people has been told to the point of nausea. There ought to be some point where reporters would tell things as they are instead of indulging in a lot of sentimental drip...
...addition, many experts also oppose writing a flat prohibition on deficits into the Constitution. One reason is that it would holster an important weapon in coping with recession. Moreover, many doubt that a no-deficit amendment is practical. Robert Bork, Yale's conservative law professor and former U.S. Solicitor General in the Nixon Administration, attempted for several months to draft a constitutional amendment that would limit federal spending. He is finally giving up. Said he: "The more I tried, the more I became dubious it would work." If federal revenues fell short of estimates because of economic conditions...
...Court allowed five George Washington University law students to oppose a railroad-rate surcharge. Why? Because, the students argued, the surcharge would increase the cost of recyclable goods and thus mean more beer cans littering public parks. (They lost.) Conservatives like Yale Law Professor Robert Bork, who was U.S. Solicitor General during the Nixon Administration, understandably worry that "democratic government gets pushed back and back, as judicial government takes over...
Howe still maintains that Ackerman was operating a boarding house, despite a ruling to the contrary by the city solicitor's office...
...United States." All staff members were in the top 2% of their law school classes. Most are young and could be earning considerably more. Instead, they accept salaries ranging from $22,000 to $47,000 to "play in the big leagues," as McCree puts it. Says the Solicitor General: "We have the excitement of being in the eye of the hurricane...