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...have not let up on Nixon. They were outraged at the invasion of Cambodia, led moves to fix a firm withdrawal date for U.S. troops in Indochina, opposed the anti-ballistic missile system (which survived in the 1969 Senate by only one vote), rejected Nixon Supreme Court Nominees Clement Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell...
INDIANA: Vance Hartke, the Democratic incumbent from Indiana, may not be the ideal liberal Senator, but on most of the basic issues he votes with the good guys and in Indiana that takes guts. He opposed both Haynsworth and Carswell, as well as the ABM. He has opposed the war since the early days of the Johnson Administration. Predictably he is in trouble. His opponent, right-wing Republican Rep. Richard Roudebush, is a former national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and supports Nixon and Agnew about as much as anyone...
...achieved intellectual or philosophical leadership within the court. Burger's chance might come with the exit of three aging Justices: Hugo L. Black, 84, John M. Harlan and William O. Douglas, both 71. But those venerables were so miffed by Nixon's efforts in the Haynsworth and Carswell episodes last year that now they plan to hang on as long as possible...
After Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell were ignominiously rejected for the Supreme Court, the American Bar Association revived an old idea with new force. President Nixon might have avoided much of the trouble, it said, by letting the A.B. A.'s twelve-member Committee on the Federal Judiciary screen his nominees for the Supreme Court before he submitted their names to the Senate. After all, the committee has screened choices for lower federal courts since the Eisenhower Administration. Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson asked the committee to double-check their Supreme Court nominees as well-though usually only...
Other lawyers were less impressed. For one thing, the A.B.A. represents less than half the nation's lawyers. For another, the A.B.A. panel is dominated by a narrow segment of successful lawyers who have never turned down any Supreme Court nominee. The panel approved both Haynsworth and Carswell, even after damaging evidence against them had been turned up by other groups. While the committee might block political hacks, scholars fear that it would favor technically qualified judges at the expense of creative or unconventional men needed to leaven the high court. Walsh acknowledged that the screening process will almost...