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...questioning him on more than 60 obscure legal and historical matters. Marshall did not have the answers for Thurmond, but he spoke persuasively enough on the main issues to be confirmed by 69 votes to 11. After Marshall had served four years on the bench, Lyndon Johnson made him Solicitor General in 1965, a prelude to naming him to the court two years later...
...vote that stirred the most notice was the tie-breaking yea cast by David Souter, the court's newest Justice. Pro-choice advocates had earlier been encouraged by Souter's sharp questioning of U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr during oral arguments in the Rust case last fall. "The physician cannot perform a normal professional responsibility," Souter had said. "You are telling us ((that the government)) in effect may preclude professional speech." Yet last week Souter concurred in a majority opinion based on that very reasoning. Since the ruling did not directly address the question of a woman's right...
...that point, Fisher was ready for the rough-and-tumble world of arguing cases for the government, winning his first eight cases he argued for the Solicitor General's office in front of the Supreme Court. Fisher then asked his supervisor for a "tough" case, but he says he learned more from the response than he did from his previous string of victories...
...Sunday Bush narrowed the field to five. They included Souter, Jones, Solicitor General Kenneth Starr and two judges on the federal appeals court in Washington -- Lawrence Silberman, who two weeks ago joined in a ruling that threw out one of Oliver North's convictions in the Iran-contra scandal, and Clarence Thomas, the black former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Not having met Jones and Souter, the President asked to have them invited to Washington...
Speculation immediately focused on a wide range of possible replacements. Among the most prominent: U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr; U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills; two Fifth Circuit Appeals Judges, Edith Jones of Houston and Patrick Higginbotham of Dallas; and Thornburgh. Bush also has given Gray a list of at least three Hispanics he wanted checked out as possible Justices...