Word: warren
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Fortas finally became the hapless focus of conservative unrest over court decisions on pornography and the rights of criminal suspects. The attack developed into an assault on the whole Warren court, impairing its prestige severely in the process (see THE LAW). Last week the nomination that once looked like a sure thing went down to an embarrassing defeat...
...much-heralded Crisis at Columbia, the 222-page report of the five-man Cox Commission, differs strikingly from the reports of the other two most publicized investigative commissions in recent years--the Warren Commission report on President Kennedy's assassination and the Kerner Commission report on urban riots...
...Commission does not set out to verify a theory and spend most of its time expressing a point of view and using the facts to prove its case. And as such, Crisis at Columbia is unlikely to produce the kind of controversy and criticism that have surrounded the Warren Commission Report since its publication. Harvard law professor Archibald Cox and his four colleagues--one of whom was Dana L. Farnsworth, director of Harvard's Health Services--simply tried to find out what happened at Columbia and why. They did not refuse to talk to any witnesses who could offer anything...
...Southern origin and his moderation four separate times, as if that unlikely juxtaposition would suffice to insure his vote for the forces of sanity and enlightment. The Times concluded that Thornberry's appointment would keep the Fortas court "firmly cemented into the liberal posture that was characteristic of the Warren court." One Southern legislator with a better conception of the meaning of "moderate" in the South commented simply: "It looks like a pretty good deal to me. Okay, so we let Fortas become Chief Justice. In return, we get a moderate on the Court...
...fear that a Nixon appointment may mark a turn away from the relative enlightenment of the Warren Court is certainly warranted. A Thurmond Court, say, could bring the Supreme Court firmly in line with a conservative administration and Congress. But the assumption that a Fortas Court, with Thornberry the moderate, would continue and build upon the work of the Warren Court is knee-jerk liberalism in the grand old style...