Word: jurists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filibuster. Hubert Humphrey challenged Richard Nixon to call Republicans off the filibuster, so that the case could come to a vote, which Fortas would probably win. Nixon refused, but tried to steer a middle course that would not overly displease either liberals or conservatives. He called Fortas an able jurist, expressed his own distaste for a filibuster, but said that he did not want to interfere with a Senate matter...
...reputation of the court further tarnished. Equally important, members of the court in the future may be reluctant to take unpopular stands, lest they lose the chance to become Chief Justice. Since Fortas' chances seem so hopeless, some friends have recommended that he withdraw his nomination. The embattled jurist has not done so, and plans to fight...
Although it will probably be months until he faces trial before Memphis Judge W. Preston Battle, a tough, independent-minded jurist, Ray seemed almost in a hurry to return to the U.S. Abandoning his effort to appeal a British extradition order that seemed doomed to failure anyway, he was spirited by night from grimy Wandsworth prison to Lakenheath Air Base 76 miles from London for his nonstop flight to Memphis...
Though his stature as a jurist hardly matches that of such colleagues on the Circuit Court as Albert Parr Tuttle and John Minor Wisdom, Thornberry took generally progressive stands on civil rights and free-speech cases. In 1966, he wrote the decision that struck down Texas' poll tax. Last year he sided with an 8-to-4 majority that ordered Southern schools to speed school desegregation. This year he overturned a local Louisiana ordinance restricting picketing with the words: "In an open society there must be the ability to advocate views in the hope of changing existing preconceptions...
...Gaullist friend and confidant, an adviser in De Gaulle's political triumphs, the editor of his memoirs. In the same years, and with little preparation for any of them, he pursued three remarkably successful careers. Without ever having studied law, he turned in a first-rate jurist's performance when assigned to an administrative court in De Gaulle's postwar government. Without ever having trained as a banker, he attracted the attention of Guy de Rothschild, rose to become chief administrative officer of France's Rothschild Bank in the 1950s. Without ever having delivered a public...