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The Senate Judiciary Committee does not often enliven its deliberations with erotica. The opportunity arose, improbably enough, during its hearings on the nomination of Associate Justice Abe Fortas as Chief Justice of the United States.
Along with a clutch of lurid nudie magazines, the film was introduced as evidence of the kind of material that the Supreme Court, with Fortas in agreement, has found to be not legally obscene. Senator Thurmond branded the nudist magazines, such as Nudi-Fax, Friendly Female and Weekend Jaybird, as...
Refusing to Answer. Last week's attack was a good indication of the growing strength of the movement to block the confirmation of Fortas and Homer Thornberry, Lyndon Johnson's nominee for Associate Justice. Though the hear ings ended after nine days, more than a score of Senators...
Liberal supporters of the appointments were not altogether unhappy with a temporary delay that would let memories dull and tempers cool. Fortas was on firm ground in refusing to answer questions about past rulings and issues that might be brought before the court in the future, but it still looked...
Nixon is still capable of little bloopers. He was too quick, for instance, to criticize Abe Fortas' appointment as Chief Justice. Nixon, who won fewer than 1% of the Jewish votes in a recent Michigan survey (v. 20% for Rocky), thereby threatened to sap his appeal to that group even...