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...right-to-lifers that Souter could be trusted, Hager was busy allaying the fears of members of the National Abortion Rights Action League. Hager kept repeating, "He has never associated with pro-life groups. His friends aren't pro-life." His closest political allies and friends -- Republican Senator Warren Rudman and Rath -- are pro-choice...
...case, several pregnant women receiving Medicaid help challenged a new state regulation in which the state said it would not pay for abortions unless a woman's life was at risk. The case was first filed in 1975, when Souter was top deputy to Warren Rudman. Souter became attorney general in 1976 when Rudman went into private practice. Rudman, a Republican, was elected to the Senate...
...ended last week. With the abrupt resignation of Justice William Brennan, the court that Chief Justice Earl Warren led into an age of liberal judicial activism passed into history...
...immediately began pressuring George Bush to fill the vacancy with a conservative. "This is a seminal event in the return of the rule of law," exulted Michael Carvin, a former Justice Department official who helped screen judicial candidates for Ronald Reagan. "If there is anyone who represents the Warren Court's judicial activism, it is Brennan. He is the intellectual leader on the left of the court. Some important cases will go the other way when he is replaced...
Brennan, an Irish Roman Catholic and Democrat, was plucked from the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1956 by Dwight Eisenhower, who hoped that the nomination would help undermine Democrat Adlai Stevenson's liberal challenge to his bid for a second term. Three years earlier Eisenhower had appointed Warren, the Republican Governor of California. He later pointed to Warren and Brennan as two of the "biggest mistakes" he had made...