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Joseph Rauh Jr., a Washington lawyer active in the fights against the Supreme Court nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, was the first of several nationally prominent speakers to address the conference...
...district courts. Lyndon Johnson chose nine for district benches and higher judicial posts, while John Kennedy selected three. Of Nixon's four Southern nominees to the Fifth Circuit, two have been at least 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...
...President encountered no difficulty when he appointed Burger, a solid and magisterial Minnesotan. It was when he moved to fill Abe Fortas' seat with a Southern conservative that Nixon embarked on two of the nastiest fights of his presidency. Both South Carolina's Clement Haynsworth and Florida's G. Harrold Carswell were rejected by the Senate. The twin defeats infuriated Nixon, but he finally turned to Harry Blackmun, a diligent, uncontroversial Minnesota jurist who was quickly confirmed...
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...
PAUL H. RONEY, 50. Appointed by Nixon to fill G. Harrold Carswell's seat on the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Florida, Roney has not served as a judge long enough to establish a reputation. A former member of the board of governors of the Florida Bar Association, he had no prior judicial experience. Still, he does not seem to have Carswell-style racist skeletons in his closet. At the time of his appointment, according to a Florida civil rights worker, "we did everything we could to find something on the man, and we couldn't come...