He is on the board of directors of The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. He currently sits on the National Advisory Board of Center for Urban Renewal and Education. He was also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He currently holds fellowships and chairmanships with several public policy councils and think-tanks, including the Constitution Project and the Heritage Foundation. Meese eventually rose to hold the position of the 75th United States Attorney General (1985–1988), a position from which he resigned following the Wedtech scandal. Following the 1984 election, he was considered for the position of White House Chief of Staff by President Reagan, but James Baker was chosen instead. Never mind the shredding parties, grants of immunity, missing funds or the fact that these gentlemen have not yet been tried in a court of law.Īh well, as Fawn Hall said so eloquently, maybe some matters are ''above the law.'' Especially when rampant civil libertarianism is on the loose.Edwin Meese III (born December 2, 1931) is an American attorney, law professor, author and member of the Republican Party who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan gubernatorial administration (1967–1974), the Reagan presidential transition team (1980–81) and the Reagan administration (1981–1985). Reagan reportedly responded that he liked the sound of that idea. Henry Hyde (R., Ill.), a conservative`s conservative, has urged President Reagan to pardon North and John Poindexter of their felony charges in connection with Iran-contra. If that twist-about makes your head spin, consider the recent disclosure that Rep. He wrote many of Nixon`s ''lock them up and throw away the key'' speeches in the early 1970s, but now he blames that concept on ''lock-them-up liberalism.'' Real, honest-to-gosh, true conservatives, he says, really favor restitution as a better way to make criminals pay for their crimes than locking them up in expensive penitentiaries. Remember Charles Colson, former aide to President Richard Nixon and famous Watergate ex-convict? Writing in the winter issue of the conservative Policy Review magazine under the headline ''Let Our Prisoners Go,'' Colson has become a champion of radical prison reform. If Meese practiced his earlier preachings he would be obliged not only to resign, but perhaps also to place himself under arrest, read himself his rights and lead himself off to the hoosegow.īut I would not deny Meese the rights he has been so eager to deny others.īesides, he is not the only conservative who is getting soft on crime these days. Strom Thurmond (R., S.C.) has passed on the ''deep concern'' of his fellow senators about the image Meese is presenting. William Weld, who resigned as chief of Meese`s criminal division, reportedly felt an indictment should be sought against Meese. McKay, the independent counsel looking into Meese`s affairs, has announced that he does not have enough, for now, to seek an indictment.īut is unindictability enough to ask of the nation`s top lawman? Of course, Meese has been cleared of wrongdoing in the Wedtech scandal, and James C. For a man who would like to deny others the right to remain silent, Meese certainly has not been shy about claiming his right to remain forgetful.
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