Rights on trial: the odyssey of a people's lawyer. (book reviews)

In February 1972 Arthur Kinoy argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, successfully challenging the U.S. president's reliance on inherent national security authority to wiretap American citizens without a warrant. His opponent was Robert Mardian, a Justice Department deputy and eventual Watergate defendant. Kinoy's argument implied, with remarkable prescience, that the government's inherent authority theory could be applied to Democrats as well as to radicals. Mardian rejected the assertion, urging the administration's good faith. Only weeks earlier, then Attorney General