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...since the Cival War has a Supreme Court seat been vacant for so long. Not since the fight over Louis Brandeis in 1916 has a court nomination stirred up so destructive a dispute as that produced by the unsuccessful Carswell and Haynsworth nominations. With an almost palpable sense of relief, the Senate is set to begin the repair process this week by consenting - cheerfully - to the appointment of Federal Circuit Judge Harry Blackmun to the place vacated by Abe Fortas' forced resig nation twelve months...
...both a native Southerner and a Republican, I deeply resent the President's implication that Judges Haynsworth and Carswell were the best our area could offer. In fact, they were simply second-rate candidates and were quite rightly rejected by the Senate...
...about $1,350, and in 1967 he and several colleagues upheld a lower court decision dismissing a suit against Northwestern Bell Telephone Co., an A.T. & T. subsidiary, on grounds that the suit had been filed in the wrong court. After the senatorial criticism of Haynsworth's sitting on cases in which he might have had a financial interest, Blackmun last January excused himself from a Ford case to which he had been assigned. Blackmun says that now he feels he was wrong in taking those earlier cases, small as they were, but considers it hindsight. "In the more tense...
...Carry Nation axing a saloon, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford last week launched a crusade to expel Justice William O. Douglas from the Supreme Court. Most observers assume that Ford wants to impeach Douglas as a reprisal for Richard Nixon's two Senate defeats in the Haynsworth and Carswell cases. Legal scholars doubt that Douglas' unconventional views and behavior come remotely close to grounds for impeachment. But Douglas is vulnerable to criticism on many grounds...
...unwise conduct, questionable judgment and injudicious partisanship. Is this enough to oust him? It would certainly suffice for the Senate to veto a Supreme Court nominee. But Douglas hurdled that barrier in 1939; different standards apply to a sitting judge. After all, no one seriously considered impeaching Judges Haynsworth or Carswell, despite the criticism that barred them from the Supreme Court. One reason is the need for judicial independence: federal judges are deliberately appointed for life and the Constitution restricts the grounds for impeachment to "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." The process requires a majority vote...