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There appears to be a marked but generally unremarked note of the autobiographical in those opinions of Supreme Court Justice Byron White that have set so many of us journalists to wailing as from the Lubyanka.

But then the memorialist frequently uncovers himself even in the dense folds of the robe. Those Supreme Court decisions that so diminished the law officer’s prerogatives in the Sixties were, after all, largely the work of Chief Justice Warren and Justice Black, who had been prosecutors themselves and remembered what they had done.

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There appears to be a marked but generally unremarked note of the autobiographical in those opinions of Supreme Court Justice Byron White that have set so many of us journalists to wailing as from the Lubyanka.

But then the memorialist frequently uncovers himself even in the dense folds of the robe. Those Supreme Court decisions that so diminished the law officer’s prerogatives in the Sixties were, after all, largely the work of Chief Justice Warren and Justice Black, who had been prosecutors themselves and remembered what they had done.