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...William Rehnquist is the Lone Ranger no longer. To his brethren he will henceforth be known as "the chief." Last week President Reagan announced that Rehnquist will succeed Warren Burger, 78, who will step down after 17 years as the highest jurist in the land when the court's term ends next month. On the first Monday in October, when the nine Justices emerge from behind the red curtain to take the high bench, William Hubbs Rehnquist will become the 16th Chief Justice of the United States...
...with well- established judicial track records. The Reaganauts did not want to be rudely surprised. They were mindful that Dwight Eisenhower's choice of Chief Justice, Earl Warren, had seemed like a moderate Republican as Governor of & California and promptly turned out to be an innovative liberal as a jurist. A short list of half a dozen contenders was drawn up. It did not include any of Reagan's old political buddies, such as Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and former Interior Secretary William Clark. The President's instructions had the effect of eliminating Attorney General Edwin Meese from consideration. Meese...
Scalia was given first crack at an interview with Reagan, and again the President wasted no time. After trading a few anecdotes with the congenial jurist about old judges they had known, Reagan offered, and Scalia accepted. The tidiness of the selection process pleased the President's advisers; Reagan was spared from ever having...
...evenings are evidence of Scalia's engaging sociability, but it is his combination of affability and acumen, of energetic fervor and astringent intellect, that makes him potentially one of the most influential of Justices. The Reagan Administration could hardly have invented a jurist whose views are more perfectly consistent with its own philosophy--or a sharper advocate of that philosophy...
DIED. Carl Schmitt, 96, controversial German legal and political philosopher, sometimes called the Crown Jurist of the Third Reich, whose pro-authoritarian theories of government profoundly influenced the course of his country; in Plettenberg, West Germany. From 1929 to 1933, he provided legal and theoretical justifications for the Hindenburg government's dictatorial emergency decree system. Schmitt warned against a Nazi takeover, but his right-wing views became identified with the movement, and when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Schmitt opportunistically switched with the tide, becoming Prussian state councilor under Hermann Goring. He avoided prosecution as a war criminal...