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| | Horace Cooper on Supreme Court on National Review Online |
 | | Justice John Marshall Harlan II, an Eisenhower appointee and grandson of another Supreme Court justice (John Harlan Marshall, the lone dissenter in the 1896 Plessy v. |
 | | Harlan had been interested in retiring for some time, but had delayed doing so out of deference to his colleague, Justice Hugo Black, an FDR appointee known for his advocacy of a "literal" reading of the U.S. Constitution. |
 | | As John Dean revealed in his prize-winning account, The Rehnquist Choice, President Nixon would consider some 35 candidates for the vacancies, including Howard Baker, then the Republican senator from Tennessee, California appeals-court judge Mildred Lillie (who would have been the first woman on the Supreme Court), and even the sitting vice president, Spiro T. Agnew. |
| www.nationalreview.com /comment/cooper200509140844.asp (828 words) |
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