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...Democratic liberals and Republican moderates who effectively blocked Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell show no signs of objecting to Blackmun. Even Joseph Rauh Jr., vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action and a slashing foe of the first two nominees, conceded last week that "President Nixon's nomination at long last of a judicial moderate validates the liberal efforts against Judges Haynsworth and Carswell." Civil rights groups also seem pleased with Blackmun. John Pemberton Jr., executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, praised the 61-year-old federal judge as a man with "a capacity for objectivity...
Judge Blackmun, who is a member of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, graduated summa cumulated from the College in 1929, receiving his degree from the Law School in 1932. Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., Nixon's first unsuccessful nominee for the seat of former Justice Abe Fortas, also graduated from the Law School...
...Blackmun, who said Sunday that he is personally opposed to capital punishment, is not considered to be as conservative as either Carswell or Haynsworth...
Federal Judge Homer Thornberry of Texas, whose 1968 nomination collapsed when the Senate refused to confirm Abe Fortas as Chief Justice, accepted his fate with equanimity, returned to his Fifth Circuit Court bench, and talked jokingly of writing a book about his experience. Judge Clement Haynsworth, who suffered from conflict-of-interest charges after he was nominated, has also survived his ordeal. Declaring that "what happened last fall is dead and buried behind me," Haynsworth has resumed his intensely private way of life in Greenville, S.C., dividing his attention between his court cases and his prizewinning camellias. He has also...
...articles and books, he is an activist in the cause of civil rights. As director of training institutes for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, he supervises continuing legal education for civil rights lawyers in various parts of the country. He has also been a vocal opponent of both the Haynsworth and Carswell nominations to the Supreme Court...