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Meese and Baker headed next to Capitol Hill, where they showed their list to South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole, and then to Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., who warned of a Senate fight over Bork. At a Washington hotel Wednesday morning, White House Counsel Arthur B. Culvahouse interrogated Bork over coffee to satisfy himself that the potential nominee had no awkward club memberships, dubious financial dealings or medical problems...
...federal judge nominated in 1930 by Herbert Hoover, was rejected by the Senate because of an antilabor ruling on the bench -- but also for some racist remarks made during a campaign for Governor of North Carolina. When Justice Abe Fortas was nominated as Chief Justice, his liberal decisions prompted Thurmond and others to block his elevation...
Mathias was most effective on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he fought off efforts to tinker with the Constitution through amendments to permit school prayer, outlaw abortion and require a balanced budget. He paid for his positions when Republicans won control of the Senate in 1980: conservatives persuaded Strom Thurmond to pass up the job as chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee and take over Judiciary in order to block Mathias from the post. That maneuver stung Mathias and contributed to his lonely independence...
...confirmation hearings must have seemed an all-too-familiar nightmare to William Rehnquist, President Reagan's nominee to be Chief Justice, who first went through this particular mill in 1971 when he was initially nominated to the Supreme Court. Even with a redoubtable conservative ally, North Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, at the helm of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the rumpled and bemused Rehnquist suffered some turbulent moments at the hands of liberal Democratic committee members like Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden. Although the heated hearings were not expected to hurt Rehnquist's chances of confirmation as the 16th Chief Justice...
...President about the U.S.'s striking back, Reagan immediately responded with a question: "Any casualties?" No, said Poindexter. The President clenched his fist and shook it. "Good. Good." The tension had lifted. The White House summoned congressional leaders for a briefing, and Poindexter informed Tip O'Neill, Strom Thurmond, Robert Byrd and Bob Michel about U.S. actions. O'Neill emerged from the meeting and, choosing his words carefully, declared that "the Administration's handling of this matter is on the right course...