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...selection. They are invariably consulted in advance of a nomination, and they have an unwritten but real veto power over the President's choice. Senate practice blocks confirmation of any candidate for the district or circuit bench who is unacceptable to either of his home-state Senators. James Eastland of Mississippi, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sends both of the Senators a blue slip bearing the nominee's name, and if either fails to return it, the nomination is abandoned...
...average-Charles Clark of Mississippi and Paul Roney of Florida -but the others were G. Harrold Carswell and Ingraham. Still, that record is a bit better than John Kennedy's. One J.F.K. appointment to a district court in Mississippi was William Harold Cox, a college roommate of Senator Eastland's who had addressed blacks from the bench as "niggers." Writes Victor S. Navasky in Kennedy Justice: "No aspect of Robert Kennedy's attorney generalship is more vulnerable to criticism" than his appointments to the Southern courts. On the evidence thus far, the Nixon Administration is earning...
...intimated that Rehnquist had failed to disavow any "connections" with societies similar to the John Birch Society, Rauh was sharply rebuked by Senator Kennedy. (The false report of the nominee's Birch membership came from the Associated Press, and had already been scotched when Mississippi Senator James Eastland, chairman of the committee, presented an affidavit from Rehnquist disclaiming any such membership...
Without Cause. Conservative members seized on the tone of the testimony to gain sympathy for Rehnquist. Eastland described the lawyer as someone who was being "persecuted without cause by those who are opposed...
Voter turnout was the largest in Mississippi history, as high as 90% in some counties, but it was by and large the white voters who came to the polls in unprecedented numbers. The Democratic regulars pressed getting out the vote above all other issues. Mississippi Senators James Eastland and John Stennis traveled down from Washington to stump the state with a single message: go to the polls...