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...days a bitter storm had been rising over the evident mediocrity of the candidates the President was considering for the distinguished chairs of John Harlan and the late Hugo Black. As Nixon settled behind his desk in the Oval Office to announce his choices over television, he was almost universally expected to appoint Little Rock Lawyer Herschel Friday and California Court of Appeals Judge Mildred Lillie?nominees widely regarded as obscure and unsatisfactory. It looked like Haynsworth and Carswell all over again, some Senators predicted, with another vitriolic fight over confirmation. "As a group," Edward Kennedy had said...
When John Harlan announced his retirement a week after Black, Mitchell and Kleindienst did not feel bound by any regional requirement. Speculation began about filling Harlan's chair with the court's first woman Justice. Women's groups lobbied for the idea, and Pat Nixon told a reporter: "If he doesn't appoint a woman, he's going to have to see me." Thus, for the first time, Mitchell and Kleindienst had to ignore their list. All the qualified women, they felt, were either Democrats or liberals...
...Foundation (1969-71). As head of the A.B.A., he was credited with efforts to speed courtroom procedures and to provide legal aid to the needy. All in all, says Professor Jon R. Waltz of Northwestern, Powell is "a very fine lawyer, justified to sit in the seat of John Harlan. For the first time in a long, long while, the court will have a new man who has demonstrated he can work with the law, and that he can do it superbly...
WITH the death of Justice Hugo Black and the simultaneous retirement of Justice John Harlan, President Nixon had an unusual opportunity to redress the embarrassment of his two unsuccessful Supreme Court nominations- G. Harrold Carswell and Clement F. Haynsworth. Surely he must now avoid renewed humiliation by proposing Justices of impeccable credentials and unquestioned eminence. But last week, when the names of six potential appointees, including two women, were made known, Richard Nixon once again demonstrated his inability or unwillingness to nominate renowned jurists to the highest tribunal in the land...
Here was the essence of the intellect in action, which the Supreme Court alone among U.S. institutions is capable of supplying. With carefully written precision Justices Black and Harlan provoked and inspired others, on and off the court, to better thinking about law and American democracy. As the court began its new term last week, their absence seemed to have left "the nine black beetles" not only fewer but somehow grayer-less distinct, less vigorous, even, for the moment, less important. Consideration of the most significant cases has been postponed and, with the unexpected withdrawal of Virginia Representative Richard Poff...