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Ever since they became law partners in 1967, Mitchell and Nixon have been fast friends and kindred spirits. It was Mitchell who gave one of the pushes that helped to force Justice Abe Fortas off the Supreme Court by advising the then Chief Justice, Earl Warren, of a financial indiscretion...
Mitchell's department was just as insensitive in selecting the Supreme Court nominees. Mitchell originally assigned his deputy, Richard Kleindienst, to compile a list of some 150 potential Justices. Applying Nixon's guidelines, he reduced the list to about 30 names. Mitchell then helped prune it to just five, including...
Reserved Seat. With talk like that from his supporters, there was scarcely anything of substance that Carswell's opponents could add. There are, indeed, many mediocre people in the country, and perhaps they do feel under-represented on the court-though certainly not in the Congress. Before Abe Fortas...
That was the first reaction of George Harrold Carswell last week when confronted with a blatantly racist speech he had made 22 years ago. The revelation came only two days after Judge Carswell, 50, was named by President Nixon to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated last May by Abe...
Despite his love for law, Traynor thinks that the country has too many laws, especially those that clog the courts with auto cases and those that "try to legislate morals." He has certainly studied the subject. Once a law professor at Berkeley (his alma mater), Traynor has enriched his judicial...