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16 Am. B. News 1 (1971)
Issue No. 11

handle is hein.journals/ambrnw16 and id is 99 raw text is: (W Powell, Rehnquist Given Highest ABA Rating [ewis F. Powell, Jr. and William H. Rehnquist. President Nixon's nominees for the U S? Supreme Court, were accorded the highest rating classification of the ABA Standing Committee on the Fedcral Judiciary. the comrmittee reported to Senator James 0. Eastland (D Mis), chairman ol the lUS. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, that hoth men meet T'high standards of professional competence, judicial temperament, and integrity, and that cach 'is one of the best persons a ailable for appointment to the Supreme Court.' All members of thc ABA comimittcee gave Mr. Powell the top rating. All but three of th e 12-member committee also gave Mr. Rchnquist their highcst rating. The others expressed their position as not opposcd to his confirmation. Piwell I5 he committee noted that Mr. Powell ranked first in his law school class at Washington arid Lee University, wherc he received his LIL.B degree in 1931. and is regarded as one of the leading lawyers of Virginia, As chairman of the Richmond Public Schools Board from 1952 to 1961, the report stated° he is credited with a substantial contribution to the peaceful desegregation of the Richmond School system. U°S. Supreme Con nominees William H. R hnquist, a1o, ad L wi F. Pow e, Jr., right. Mr. Powll is. siown holding a giant key to the new American Bar Center additio a4 dedhkfion ceremonies. IFashioned In the shape of a judge's head, the key proved to he a prophetic symbol of things to come for Mr. PoweIl He served as president of the ABA in 1964-65 termed by the committee 'a yeair of significant achievement. Mr. Powell was president of the American Bar Foundation from 1969 to 1971 and president of the American College of Tuial Lawyers in 1969 70 ( ontlisned on Page 3 Committee Denies Responsibility For Supreme Court News Leaks Ihe Nixon Administration has ended, for the time being at least, its practice of submitting names of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees to the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary fr advance review of their qualihecalions. In a letter to ABA President Leon Jaworski and Iawrence F. Walsh, chairnan of the committee, Attorney General John Mitchell stated that the procedure was being dropped because 'there is no practical way to avoid unauthorized disclosure to the news media of the names submitted and the committee's findings. The letter came after the Wa.shngton Post carried a story by John P. MacKenzie on October 21 reporting thai the committee had found Justice Mildred L Lxillie, of the California Court of Appeals, and Herschel H Friday of Iitile Rock, Ark unqualified for the Supreme Court, Some critics im mediately conciuded that a committee member had leaked the story. On October 31 the committee issued a 16-page report denying that any committee member was responsible for the breach of confidentiality. The report contained a detailed accounting of each member's whereabouts after leaving the October 20 meeting. None of them talked with any reporter, the report states. Under the circumstances, it was virtually impossible for a reporter to have found any of them/ Jssthe Departmet:t A The Depart- ment of Justice itself may have been the source of the story, the report suggests. It quotes two lawyers of impeccable reputation and a person associated with news media as stating that a Department of Justice source was responsible, and that the reporter was at the Department about 6 p.m. Judge Walsh had informed the Attorney General's office of the committee's vote by telephone between 5 and 5:30 p.m The committee has conducted 472 investigations for the present adminis- C2ontinued on P ige 4 Volume I, Nimber II Noveiber 1971

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