The Nation - News from Sept. 7, 1988

William Bradford Reynolds, the Justice Department’s controversial civil rights chief, will no longer play a dual role as top adviser to the attorney general, department spokesmen said. Reynolds, who will remain as head of the civil rights division, late last week moved out of the office where he worked as “counselor” to Edwin Meese III, who left office as attorney general Aug. 12. The spokesman said Reynolds will not hold a similar position under new Atty. Gen. Dick Thornburgh. Meese appointed Reynolds to the counselor’s job in May, 1987. The Senate Judiciary Committee in June, 1985, refused to confirm him as associate attorney general, the department’s No. 3 post. The job of counselor does not require Senate confirmation.