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...Whitney Young: "We are in the throes of a systematic destruction of all the gains made in the 1960s." There was a sense that a new corner had been turned, that a different standard of ethics was operating, that the new trend would continue. Tallahassee's Judge G. Harrold Carswell seemed relatively certain of Senate confirmation, and Southerners believed that with more vacancies to come as septuagenarian Justices depart, "strict constructionism" will be well represented. If HEW's power continues to sink, the administrative push needed to enforce the law in individual cases will suffer accordingly...
...Judge G. Harrold Carswell and his defenders, in responding to the most provocative attacks made on him, insist that he is no racist. Even granting him the point, is that negative credential sufficient qualification for serving on the U.S. Supreme Court? While much of the argument over Carswell's nomination has centered on his questionable civil rights record, an increasing number of legal scholars and Senators are asking whether he has the kind of legal mind that would enhance the nation's highest court...
Opponents of Judge G. Harrold Carswell-whose nomination to the Supreme Court was approved Monday by the Senate Judiciary Committee-are planning to contest his confirmation because of his alleged lack of legal "distinction...
That broadside attack last week on G. Harrold Carswell was delivered by Law Professor William Van Alstyne of Duke University. In testimony before the same Senate Judiciary Committee last year, Van Alstyne, a noted expert on the court, had delighted Southern Senators by supporting the confirmation of Clement Haynsworth...
...local telephone company that he had helped to finance. Ambitious, having fought in the Pacific as a Navy lieutenant during World War II, Carswell might have figured that it was time to leave rural Irwinton, and politics was a way to do it. When his political bid failed, Harrold and his wife Virginia moved to her home town of Tallahassee. Carswell, a Democrat, was persuaded by a local newsman to take Eisenhower's side in a radio debate with an Adlai Stevenson backer. Soon he became known as Ike's advocate in Florida, and when the Republicans took...