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...Rush demonology, Senator Edward Kennedy is both Satan and satyr -- a perfect target. Last year, when an opponent of Judge David Souter hypothesized that the Supreme Court nominee was "in the closet," Limbaugh said, "I think any of us would be safer in a closet with Judge Souter than we would be in an automobile with Ted Kennedy." Any member of the Kennedy family is vulnerable to Limbaugh's scorn, and in the unlikeliest contexts. Last week Rush noted that accused murderer-cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer would plead innocent by reason of insanity. "That's like finding William Kennedy Smith guilty...
...nominee or thwarting the President. All a nominee has to say is, 'I have an open mind,' " says Yale Kamisar of the University of Michigan Law School. With that strategy, the White House easily slipped through the innocuous but no less conservative Anthony Kennedy and the enigmatic David Souter. Says Kamisar: "The lesson is that the Bork hearings were an aberration...
What was Supreme Court Justice DAVID SOUTER doing while Clarence Thomas was cramming for his Senate confirmation grilling? The right thing. During his own trial by klieg lights last year, Souter received more than 1,000 letters. Friends say the quiet jurist spent this summer holed up at home in Weare, N.H., answering each and every one -- in longhand...
Rejected nominee Robert Bork, Fisher says, could neither alter nor hide his ideals because of an extensive paper trail. Souter successfully dodged most controversy because he did not have a history of scholarship or rulings on substantive issues. Thomas, he says, is caught some-where in the middle...
During the confirmation hearings for the last Supreme Court nominee, Justice David H. Souter '61, some observers expected that he would have trouble being approved if he did not explain his stance on crucial issues such as abortion, a view that proved erroneous when the evasive Souter was easily confirmed. Still, several law students insisted that Thomas should not be confirmed if he does not divulge his views on the variety of issues on which the Senate questions...