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...Federal Judiciary, the panel has no official standing, but its three possible assessments of nominees -- well qualified, qualified or not qualified -- carry clout in the Senate during confirmation hearings and votes. Intriguingly, one of the new A.B.A. committee members who will help rate Judge Souter is William J. Brennan III, a partner in a Princeton, N.J., law firm and the son of the retiring Justice whom Souter hopes to replace...
Yourow, who taught an Institute of Politicsseminar on the U.S. Supreme Court two years ago,said he was scheduled to give a lecture on thecourt's past term even before last month'sresignation of Justice William J. Brennan. Butwhen Brennan resigned and President Bush hastilynominated Souter, Yourow said he thought he shoulddo something out of the ordinary, in order tocapitalize on the new political climate...
...clerks enter into an intimate family. The Justices tend to return the loyalty and friendship they demand of their young assistants. O'Connor, for example, takes an active interest in the personal lives of her clerks, sometimes makes lunch for them, even invites them home for Thanksgiving. Brennan always liked to mix business and pleasure over daily , freewheeling breakfast chats with his clerks. So does Justice Harry Blackmun. "He's a real baseball fan," remembers New York University law professor Vicki Been, "so there's a lot of talk about the previous day's scores." And Justice White, once...
...posturing of special interests, ringed around the central issue of abortion, but there was also concern. One of Washington's talented lawyers, Roemer McPhee, recalled how, as a young attorney in Dwight Eisenhower's White House, he harbored a mild doubt when Ike in 1956 nominated Democrat William Brennan, a practicing liberal. But McPhee, from New Jersey too, knew that Brennan was a thoughtful and decent man. Brennan was confirmed with hardly a ripple...
...invigorating and, in most cases, gratifying aspects of court history is how appointees, once in their black robes, see the nation and events independently. Often they have exasperated or disappointed the Presidents who appointed them. Earl Warren and Brennan dismayed Ike with their liberalism, but theirs was the clearer view of the country. Warren Burger, who wrote the opinion that freed up the Watergate tapes, was appointed with much fanfare by Richard Nixon himself. Arthur Goldberg resigned at Lyndon Johnson's urging to become United Nations ambassador. L.B.J. twisted the arm of his crony Abe Fortas...