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...rejection of two consecutive Supreme Court nominees made most of Washington jittery about predicting how President Nixon's third choice would fare. Certainly, if only in a show of consistency, the Senators will carefully examine the credentials of last week's nominee, Minnesotan Harry A. Blackmun. Barring any disclosures of judicial misbehavior, the general approval greeting the nomination makes it all but certain that the President has finally come up with a winner...
...Democratic liberals and Republican moderates who effectively blocked Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell show no signs of objecting to Blackmun. Even Joseph Rauh Jr., vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action and a slashing foe of the first two nominees, conceded last week that "President Nixon's nomination at long last of a judicial moderate validates the liberal efforts against Judges Haynsworth and Carswell." Civil rights groups also seem pleased with Blackmun. John Pemberton Jr., executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, praised the 61-year-old federal judge as a man with "a capacity for objectivity...
...intimately acquainted with Judge Blackmun's opinions," Bok said, "but it is my general impression that he is a very competent judge aboutwhom I feel much happier than I did about Carswell...
...Judge Blackmun, who is a member of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, graduated summa cumulated from the College in 1929, receiving his degree from the Law School in 1932. Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., Nixon's first unsuccessful nominee for the seat of former Justice Abe Fortas, also graduated from the Law School...
...Blackmun, who said Sunday that he is personally opposed to capital punishment, is not considered to be as conservative as either Carswell or Haynsworth...