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With his pasty complexion, protruding ears, receding hairline and somewhat doleful expression, Souter, 51, was as deceptive in appearance as he was unshakable under pressure. Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin called Souter a "Stealth nominee" because so little was known about his views. But other questioners commented on the variety of his experience -- as attorney general, trial judge, state supreme court justice, federal appeals court judge -- and the ample record, including 220 state supreme court opinions, that was available for scrutiny. Unlike failed nominee Robert Bork, however, Souter had left behind no trail of speeches or law-review articles that might...
Senator Howell Heflin...
...Most damaging, Lucas displayed a woeful ignorance of basic civil rights issues. Asked about the distinction between de facto (actual) and de jure (legal) segregation, Lucas drew a blank. "If it had been a white man who had been nominated who had the same background," said Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin, "he wouldn't have gotten anywhere. I think the fact that Mr. Lucas was black caused more consideration to be given...
Mitchell said that despite the decision Monday of Southern Democrat Howell Heflin of Alabama to support Tower, the nomination will go down in defeat...
...young black voters reversed a historic pattern and turned out in greater numbers than young whites. When Jackson went to visit Alabama's Senator Howell Heflin on the Bork nomination, Heflin said he did not want to do anything to discourage the "new voters," and thus opposed Bork. Jackson, solemn in the meeting, chuckles afterward at the circumlocution: "The 'new votuhs'! Don't you just love it?" But it was more than black voters who stood in Bork's way. The combination that defeated him -- minorities, women's groups, civil liberties activists -- looked like the rainbow coalition...