Lucas A. Powe Jr.

Lucas A. Powe Jr. is an American lawyer who serves as the Anne Green Regents Chair in Law at University of Texas at Austin.

Powe Sr. attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he ran the mile in track, and in 1941 was graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law.

After two years teaching at the University of British Columbia he was selected as Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas for the 1970 Term.

[3] A key difference between newspapers, on the one hand, and television stations, on the other, is that broadcasters are licensed by the Federal Communications Commission.

But a television station that offends the government can have its license revoked, a paradigm that can contribute to self-censorship, Powe argued.

For Powe, the answer is straightforward: 'From the justices' points of view, the Court's prime role was to facilitate the policies ordained by the elected branches.