He says he believed he would be… saving Justice, as in the Justice Department, by firing Mr. Cox.
In his new, short, posthumous memoir, "Saving Justice," Mr. Bork doesn't apologize for the massacre.
"Saving Justice" makes almost no mention of the fact that the clash with Mr. Cox, in October of 1973, was part of a larger drama about the rule of law, and specifically about whether Mr. Nixon was above the law.
The real way to save criminal justice costs is to reduce unnecessary incarceration.
There are still idols to be smashed, slaves to free, lives to save and justice to uphold.
The Democrats for their part can hardly bash a court whose chief justice saved the president's signature legislative achievement.
The case dragged on for eight months and Fischer was only saved from American justice by the decision of Iceland, scene of his greatest triumph, to grant him citizenship.
The conservative world publicly erupted in reaction to a ruling that few thought was possible -- the individual mandate, "saved" by Chief Justice John Roberts as a tax, lives on.
Toobin is a natural storyteller, and the stories he tells — how a coalition of centrist justices saved Roe v. Wade; why Rehnquist, despite having loathed the rights granted to criminal suspects by Miranda v. Arizona, eventually declined to overturn the decision; how right-wing firebrands deep-sixed the Supreme Court candidacies of Alberto Gonzales and Harriet Miers — are gripping.
The conservative justices saved much of their skepticism for Solicitor General Verrilli's assertions that federal law preempted four provisions of the Grand Canyon State's effort at "attrition through enforcement".
