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...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...
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...
...before voting began on the Carswell nomination, Robert Dole of Kansas turned his back on Vice President Agnew to speak directly to his fellow Republicans on the left side of the Senate chamber. Dole looked squarely at Marlow Cook of Kentucky, who had led the unsuccessful fight to confirm Clement Haynsworth. "The fate of G. Harrold Carswell rests on this side of the aisle," Dole said. "We will make the decision, as our votes will make the difference." Cook stared straight ahead. When his name was called to vote, he replied firmly...
...rejection by the Senate for elevation to the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge G. Harrold Carswell's statement could be seen as an attempt to mask his obvious disappointment. In fact, there is every reason to believe that the statement was sincere. For Carswell, as for Judge Clement Haynsworth Jr. before him -both men who were thrust from the relative obscurity of their positions into national prominence and scrutiny-the nomination fight was a bitter trial that affected lives, family and friends...
Federal Judge Homer Thornberry of Texas, whose 1968 nomination collapsed when the Senate refused to confirm Abe Fortas as Chief Justice, accepted his fate with equanimity, returned to his Fifth Circuit Court bench, and talked jokingly of writing a book about his experience. Judge Clement Haynsworth, who suffered from conflict-of-interest charges after he was nominated, has also survived his ordeal. Declaring that "what happened last fall is dead and buried behind me," Haynsworth has resumed his intensely private way of life in Greenville, S.C., dividing his attention between his court cases and his prizewinning camellias. He has also...