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...Joseph Rauh Jr., a Washington lawyer active in the fights against the Supreme Court nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, was the first of several nationally prominent speakers to address the conference...
...Rauh pleaded last night with the delegates, "for your own good," to organize campus opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of William Rehnquist...
...Joseph Rauh of the Americans for Democratic Action characterized Rehnquist as a "lawyer without compassion for blacks and other minorities" and one who "believes in unchecked Executive power, whether it is security wiretapping or the surveillance of individuals." Rauh's testimony was so vitriolic that when he intimated that Rehnquist had failed to disavow any "connections" with societies similar to the John Birch Society, Rauh was sharply rebuked by Senator Kennedy. (The false report of the nominee's Birch membership came from the Associated Press, and had already been scotched when Mississippi Senator James Eastland, chairman...
...Democratic liberals and Republican moderates who effectively blocked Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell show no signs of objecting to Blackmun. Even Joseph Rauh Jr., vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action and a slashing foe of the first two nominees, conceded last week that "President Nixon's nomination at long last of a judicial moderate validates the liberal efforts against Judges Haynsworth and Carswell." Civil rights groups also seem pleased with Blackmun. John Pemberton Jr., executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, praised the 61-year-old federal judge as a man with "a capacity for objectivity...
...spoke about the same things that he has been talking about since last November--the war, domestic ills and the style of government. After a half hour McCarthy left, while Joseph Rauh, the ADA and liberal leader, began a "pass the hat for Gene if you want to save the nation" pitch which may have raised...