Mitchell Wants You!

MITCHELL WANTS YOU!

GEARHART, Ore. (LNS)-- Attorney General John Mitchell, speaking before the Oregon State Bar Association, characterized activist lawyers, and the judges that agree with them, as a "spectacle" whose efforts may cause a "reversion to some form of government other than democracy."

He singled out movement lawyer William Kunstler in particular in his speech, saying that lawyers attempting to effect social change in this country through the courts, which seems "to be a sophisticated exploitation of the machinery of government," would in reality, "turn the clock back hundreds of years to a day when the law was what the king said it was."

Mitchell made his remarks in referring to the recent dedication of the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington by Chief Justice Warren Burger. Law students at the university in charge of setting up the dedication exercises originally invited Kunstler to speak at the proceedings.

When the trustees of the institution found out about the students' planned speaker, they took over the convocation planning, and invited Burger in his stead. The law student organizers, enraged by what they termed duplicity by the trustees, organized a counter-convocation, which took place in the street outside the new law center. A larger crowd attended Kunsler's speech than Burger's which was highlighted by a small walkout.