Word: againstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 150 years ago, the Hartford Convention proposed returning defense responsibilities to the separate states in protest against the War of 1812; New England is now in the vanguard of M-day. Boston lawyers decided to meet in historic Faneuil Hall, and then stand by, wearing green arm bands...
In the current case of Judge Clement Haynsworth, however, the White House attitude-a combination of stolidity and nervous optimism-increasingly sounded like whistling in the dark. Though the Senate Judiciary Committee last week cleared Haynsworth's nomination to the Supreme Court by a vote of 10 to 7...
It was the G.O.P. Senate leadership itself that caused much of the new damage to Haynsworth's cause. Minority Leader Hugh Scott has thus far supported the judge, but unhappily; up for re-election next year, Scott is not anxious to alienate blacks and union members in his industrial...
No Double Standard. Griffin, who led the Senate fight against approving Abe Fortas' nomination for Chief Justice last year, felt that he could not apply a double standard regarding judicial ethics. "Because confidence in the judiciary is so important at this time in our history," he said, "I believe...
Also damaging were some remarks made privately by Bernard Siegel, former chairman of the A.B. A.'s Committee on the Federal Judiciary. Siegel is deeply upset by Haynsworth's nomination, believing that it violates the principles that he tried to establish on the judiciary committee. Were he still...