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Court-martials, in fact, hardly try to give the appearance of impartial tribunals. Though commanders are officially forbidden from influencing proceedings within their jurisdiction, they can dictate the results of any trial in any number of subtle and not-so-subtle ways. They usually appoint military judges for court martials-and thus control the promotions of the key figure in judicial proceedings. They also appoint juries. Court-martials, like military music, are instruments of enforced conformity, rather than fine instruments for protecting the rights of the accused. They serve the convenience of the army...
...representatives first asked Dunlop to appoint the committee in January, Mrs. Bynum said. At that time Dunlop requested a memorandum-presented to him by the group on March 11-documenting the need for such a committee...
Nixon wrote: "What is centrally at issue is the constitutional responsibility of the President to appoint members of the court-and whether this responsibility can be frustrated by those who wish to substitute their own philosophy or their own subjective judgment" for his. Senate opponents, Nixon argued, were out of bounds in resisting Carswell simply because they felt that there could have been a better choice. He also complained that the opposition Senators were trying to deny him appointment rights that had always been accorded to Presidents of both parties...
...best, the President's letter contained a dubious view of the Senate's constitutional role. The Constitution states that the President "shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint . . . judges of the Supreme Court." The responsibility to propose is the President's alone; the power to dispose is shared...
Whatever the Senate's vote this week on the controversial nomination of G. Harrold Carswell, President Nixon is determined to appoint men to the Supreme Court who are "strict constructionists." Since he will probably have the chance to choose several more Justices, what might that ill-defined term come to mean in the 1970s...