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...Embassy Row. Anyone who phoned an embassy and was later accused of a crime, they argued, would now be entitled to force the Government to reveal such eavesdrops-even though they might involve delicate international affairs. In turning down the Government's motion for a new hearing, Justice Potter Stewart noted that the Court had ordered the release of records only when the eavesdropping violated the Fourth Amendment-and that it had not ruled on the legality of bugging for national-security reasons. To the Justice Department, at least, Stewart's statement seemed to mean a green light...
Jack Weston as Potter, Brubaker's lawyer, and Peter Lawford, as Gunther, are amusing sidelight. Potter is a lovable, drunken slob, and the scene on the bar car of the New Haven is classic. Lawford is sophisticated, intelligent, ambitious--and totally superficial. He's almost enough to make me give up working on my first million...
...dissenting opinion, Justices Potter Stewart, Byron White and John Marshall Harlan complained that the decision furnishes few guidelines for selecting the type of crime that would be considered "service-connected." The ruling, they argued, puts the law into a "demoralizing state of uncertainty." The three Justices contended that the military has the right to purge criminals whose attitudes might corrupt others in the ranks. "The soldier who acts the part of Mr. Hyde while on leave," they said, "is at best a precarious Dr. Jekyll when back on duty...
...General John Mitchell, the 1968 campaign manager. A third, Herbert Brownell, Eisenhower's Attorney General?and Burger's boss for three years in the Justice Department in the early '50s?withdrew of his own accord because he thought his former job would raise opposition in the Senate. A fourth, Potter Stewart, an Eisenhower appointee to the court, took himself out because he thought that elevation of an Associate Justice would create friction and jealousy on the bench. Thomas Dewey, twice the Republican candidate for President, said simply that at 67 he was too old. A Chief Justice, said Dewey, should...
...tagged, as Fortas was, the President's "crony." It is more likely now that Nixon will look to the lower courts or to the law schools, where he could find distinguished, nonpartisan professors. For Chief Justice, he might elevate someone already on the Supreme Court. Associate Justice Potter Stewart, an Eisenhower appointee, is considered a sound, noncontroversial choice for the spot. Somewhat to the right of center, Stewart has a solid, if not brilliant reputation. The two new openings might be filled by Henry Friendly, a judge on the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals, Harvard's Paul Freund...