Word: heflinism
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...Howell Heflin, a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, is the epitome of the Southern Democrat. He sets one at ease with his easy drawl, or stabs at the heart like a Louisiana demagogue drowned in conservatism. To judge by his opening statement, politics will be in the limelight rather than personality. A mild Sectionalist when it comes to pork-barrelling, Heflin leaves his constituency's interests at the door on the Judiciary Committee...
Sitting next to Hillary Rodham Clinton, Alabama's Howell Heflin rose and joined in: "The First Lady wants to go to bed. If you would just stop answering questions, you could go to bed and take the First Lady with you." The room broke into applause...
...Carnes has some important supporters, including both of Alabama's Democratic Senators, Richard Shelby and Howell Heflin. A powerful swing vote on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Heflin complains that Carnes' opponents "view this confirmation as being a referendum on capital punishment, although they deny it." In May, Heflin got the committee to send Carnes' name to the full Senate despite the opposition of the committee chairman, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, a fellow Democrat...
...some particularly weird moment in the latest installment of the Great American Melodrama, I had a consoling thought: well, at least it can't get any worse than this. Maybe it was when Howell Heflin, playing Senator Beauregard Claghorn, was in the midst of some bloviation, the point of which seemed to have escaped him. Or maybe it was when Orrin Hatch, playing Perry Mason, revealed that a key piece of evidence, a pubic hair, actually appeared on page 70 of The Exorcist and therefore couldn't possibly have been in Clarence + Thomas' Coke...
...straight face that he had "no opinion" on Roe v. Wade, thus marking himself as probably the only person in the U.S. without a view on the Supreme Court's landmark abortion-rights decision. "Thomas' answers and explanations about previous speeches, articles and positions," said Alabama Senator Howell Heflin, "raised thoughts of inconsistencies, ambiguities, contradictions, lack of scholarship, lack of convictions and instability...