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Do We Need the Independent Counsel Act?
Aired 1/16/1999
By one measure, the Independent Counsel Act and the office it has created have been wildly successful. And yet, the statute has never been in greater disrepute than it is today. Successful and maligned, why?
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Robert Bork
Senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, former U.S. Solicitor General, and the author of Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges.
Paul Rothstein
Media attention is focusing the public’s watchfulness on the issue of jury selection, as demonstrated by the circus surrounding the recent O.J. Simpson murder trial. Some experts say that publicity, prejudice, and complexity are destroying the jury system
Originally Aired: 1/16/1999
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