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...Judiciary Committee has tentatively scheduled a vote to recommend Thornburgh for Wednesday afternoon, according to an aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Ma.), who chaired the hearings in the absence of Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del...
...Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Ma.), who will chair the hearings today because of an illness to Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), said at the time of the nomination's announcement that he had the "greatest respect" for Thornburgh, adding that "the state of justice in America would be very different today if Dick Thornburgh had been attorney general for the past three and a half years instead of Ed Meese...
President Reagan also met with Helms to reassure him about the nomination. Reagan also chatted amiably with Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., who led the successful fight to defeat the first nominee for the court vacancy, Robert H. Bork. Reagan's second nominee, appellate judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, asked the president to withdraw his name last Saturday after Ginsburg's admission of past marijuana...
...Joseph R. Biden (D-Del.), chairman of theSenate Judiciary Commitee, said the fact thatGinsburg used marijuana had no effect on hisqualifications for the position of Supreme Courtjustice. "But the Administration has taken a verystaunch line" against the use of drugs, he said...
...delicate nature of academic records has been underscored this week by the demise of the presidential campaign of Sen. Joseph Biden, Jr. (D-Del.), when it was learned that he had committed plagiarism in law school...