Sublime

Within a few years as U.S. Attorney, Giuliani was probably the nation’s best-known crime-fighter since J. Edgar Hoover. That was due both to how many important convictions he secured and to his genius for promoting them. Though Giuliani expanded the U.S. Attorney’s office to 132 assistants, he presented himself as the iconic figurehead of that offi

But one may sometimes cite an unpublished decision from another jurisdiction to persuade the court to decide in one’s favor.

Lyndon Johnson’s contention, the judge said, was that, whether or not Coke Stevenson had been wronged, the law was powerless to right that wrong. And with that contention, the judge said, he did not agree. “A sound principle of justice,” he said, is “that there must never arise a wrong for which there is not a tribunal wherein there is a remedy. Th

He is the living embodiment of the old maxim that if you say something often enough, people will believe it. That’s

He has integrity. He does what is right, not what is expedient.

His ambition was grandiose, but he wasn’t.

He had an alert look and manner; short, graying dark hair; a clear gaze, no hint of guile—an appealing, trusting guy.

But if the Supreme Court is ever composed of imprudent men or bad citizens, the Union may be plunged into anarchy or civil war.

To his credit, President Clinton never wavered in his support of Achtenberg, and she was confirmed.