To all of you clamoring that Trump illegally appointed an Acting Attorney General. I admonish you that as Richard Nixon, so famously declared, "When the President does it, it can't be illegal.".
“Bork described the choice of Jaworski as ‘perhaps the best we could get for this very important position of special prosecutor.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/06/archives/jaworski-assumes-office-bork-praises-prosecutor-8-to-be-consulted.html Jaworski Assumes Office; Bork Praises Prosecutor “I stated to the gentlemen who were sitting with Jaworski and myself that it must be understood he has the power to go to court,” Mr. Bork testified.
Representative Elizabeth Holtzman, Democrat of Brooklyn, asked “What did they say?”
LOL! (Wonder if David Frost was also chuckling!) Priceless content from The Harvard Crimson article:
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“Bork described the choice of Jaworski as ‘perhaps the best we could get for this very important position of special prosecutor.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/06/archives/jaworski-assumes-office-bork-praises-prosecutor-8-to-be-consulted.html
Jaworski Assumes Office; Bork Praises Prosecutor
“I stated to the gentlemen who were sitting with Jaworski and myself that it must be understood he has the power to go to court,” Mr. Bork testified.
Representative Elizabeth Holtzman, Democrat of Brooklyn, asked “What did they say?”
“Yes,” Mr. Bork replied.
THANKS for your post. Interesting background material.
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