Word: hruska
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Parliamentary Gimmick. Carswell also took a beating when it came out that he had suffered what was at best an odd lapse of memory in testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Roman Hruska of Nebraska asked him in January if he had been an incorporator of the Capital City Country Club in Tallahassee (in 1956, Capital City became a private club to escape a desegregation order). "No, sir," Carswell replied. It turned out last week that only the night before his testimony, Carswell had admitted his incorporator's role to two American Bar Association representatives...
...that it might be well to take a B student or a C student who was able to think straight, compared to one of those A students who are capable of the kind of thinking that winds up getting a 100% increase in crime in this country?" After Roman Hruska finished with it, the argument even had a certain logic-if somewhat upside down and corkscrewed. "There are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers," said the Nebraska Republican. "They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they? We can't have all Brandeises, Frankfurters...
...There are, indeed, many mediocre people in the country, and perhaps they do feel under-represented on the court-though certainly not in the Congress. Before Abe Fortas' departure, there had been a "Jewish seat" on the court since Woodrow Wilson appointed Louis Brandeis in 1916. Under the Hruska doctrine, there might henceforth be a place reserved for mediocrities. On reflection, even Hmska, Carswell's chief sponsor in the Senate, realized that his reasoning was more at home in Alice in Wonderland than in the U.S. Senate. He let critics have the floor for most of the week...
...devote to the report; he thus managed to persuade both liberals and conservatives to accept his moderate approach. No doubt he was aided by the fact that some of his fellow commissioners were preoccupied. Eric Hoffer occasionally dozed during meetings, Congressman Hale Boggs rarely showed up, and Senator Roman Hruska diluted his authority by sending a legislative assistant to sessions...