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Though 65 Senators voted to confirm Rehnquist, there were 33 nays, the most ever for a successful court appointee. The Senate was kinder to U.S. Appeals Court Judge Antonin Scalia, voting 98 to 0 to approve his nomination as Associate Justice...
...Leadership Conference on Civil Rights issued its report a week before scheduled Senate debate on the nominations of Rehnquist and of Antonin Scalia as a Supreme Court associate justice...
Circuit Court Judge Antonin Scalia, President Reagan's choice for associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, will not attend today's 350th celebration symposium on the Constitution as planned...
...committee, meanwhile, began hearings on Judge Antonin Scalia's nomination to Rehnquist's seat on the Supreme Court. Unlike Rehnquist, Scalia, 50, attempted to charm his questioners with good humor. But the Senators were less than delighted. After he repeatedly sidestepped questions on abortion, freedom of information, affirmative action and equal protection, Democratic Senator Joseph Biden interjected, "Who are you, Judge Scalia? Let yourself go, because it's been pretty boring thus far." Scalia refused to take up the challenge. "I have no agenda," he said...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee recommended yesterday that William H. Rehnquist be confirmed as chief justice and that Antonin Scalia take his place on the Supreme Court...