Results for “National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform”

who combined an active constitutional law practice with teaching and writing. Although we could not have been more different in background and bearing—he was a tall

Judge Bazelon came storming out of his office holding a paper and not smiling. I knew that he got advance notice of the bar results and I thought that he was coming to tell me I had flunked. Instead he shouted

one can only imagine how shocked I was when Judge Bazelon came back to the office from a lunch at the White House in mid-October and told his entire staff

he said contemptuously of Joseph Kennedy. I don’t like them and I don’t trust them. Look at the way they screwed up the Bay of Pigs. A bunch of arrogant amateurs.”

and he didn’t have close connections to the Kennedys.

and especially with prosecutors. He knew he could never win his battles by relying on current public opinion

especially those involving defendants who could not afford an adequate defense and those with serious mental illnesses. He would ask his clerks to scour the records of cases—even those not assigned to him—for evidence of injustice. He told me that most indigent defendants—and m...

in Hebrew and English. He quoted them frequently in defense of his activism. They became his mantra

” was the highest compliment he ever paid. But when it was done and published

which consisted of the appellate briefs filed by the lawyers and an “appendix

we would meet with the judge and he would tell us which clerk was to work on the opinion. I always got the interesting cases (at least the ones that interested the judge). My co-clerk

marked up by the judge and rejected with the admonition

and some pressure from the other judges on the panel

” “Andrew Jackson” and “Oliver Wendell Holmes.” That’s what Mr. Morgan thought too. The only problem was he wasn’t a lawyer and that wasn’t his name! He was an uneducated

the judges conferred and unanimously decided to affirm the conviction. I was upset