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Right and Wrong

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THE NEW RIGHT is wrong in launching a campaign to deny Judge Sandra O’Connor a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. , It is wrong because Judge O’Connor’s judicial record is clearly one of balance that defies activist or biased labels. It is wrong because the 51-year-old Arizo- ~ . is a strict constructionist – making her “~ aecisions on legal precedent, not trying to :~: I 4!?~ate law herself. u .. .. , f.,-.,~It is wrong in attributing certain abortion ~: ~ws to Judge O’Connor while she has made ~If if clear not only that she is personally opposed tQ ,oortion but that her position has been ~–•~rsimplified and she will clarify her legisla- c,~1t,i~ voting record on the subject in testimony .before the U.S. Senate. c,V’• ‘, ~ •, tis wrong because the judge deserves the ~!.~op~rtunity – indeed, has the legal and 111 , n’S,otal right – to state her qualifications and, a¥. li “necessary, defend her record before the ;~, ~te without being prejudged. .. ; i …. it is wrong because there is nothing in either O’Connor’s professional or personal life to suggest she is a radical feminist although she is concerned about women’s right.s. It is wrong to challenge the Arizonan on ideology rather than her qualifications to judge subst.antive, legal issues. It is wrong for the New Right to assume it was the dominating factor in the election of President Reagan and, therefore, has a singular or special role in guiding the administration because such an electoral assumption is clearly inaccurate.

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Results of Senate Survey on O’Connor Nomination

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Here are results of The Associated Press survey of the Senate on Sandra Day O’Connor’s nomination as the first woman Supreme Court justice. Democrats for (13): _Cranston, Calif.; Deconcini, Ariz.; Dixo_n, Ill.; Hart, Colo.; Heflin, Ala.; Hollmgs, S.C.; Inouye, Hawaii; Long, La.; Matsunaga, Hawaii; Melcher M?nt.; Mo~nih~n, N. Y.; Riegle: Mich.; Stenms, Miss. Republicans for (20): Abdnor, S.D.; Baker, Tenn.; Cochran, Miss.; Domenici, N.M.; Duren – berger, Minn.; Goldwater, Ariz.; Gorton, Wash.; Hayakawa, Calif.; -La.xalt, Nev.; L~gar, Ind .; Maddingly, ,Ga.; Murkowsk1, Alaska; Packwood, -Ore.; Percy, Ill.; Simpson, Wyo.; Stafford, Vt.; Stevens, Alaska; Thurv mon~, S.C.; Wallop, Wyo.; Warner, a. Democrats leaning for (8): Biden, Del.; Bumpers, Ark.; Byrd, W.Va.; Eagleton, Mo.; Pell, R.I.; ~ryor, Ark.; Tsongas, Mass.; Wil- liams, N.J. Republicans leaning for (12): Andrews, N.D .; Chafee, R.I.; ~hen, Maine; Dole, Kan.; Hatch , Utah; Hatfield, Ore.; Heinz, Pa.; Kassebaum, Kan .; Quayle, Ind.; Schmitt, N.M.; Tower, Texas; Weicker, Conn. Democrats undecided (26): Baucus, Mont.; Bentsen, Texas; Boren, Okla.; Bradley, N.J.; Burdick, N.D.; Byrd, Va.; Cannon, Nev.; Chiles, Fla.; Dodd, Conn.; Exon, Neb.; Ford, Ky.; Glenn, Ohio; Huddleston, Ky.; Jackson, Wash.; John – ston, La.; Kennedy, Mass.; Leahy Vt.; Levin, Mich.; Metzenbaum ‘ Ohio; Mitchell, Maine; Nunn, Ga.; Proxmire, Wis.; Randolph, W.Va.; Sarbanes, Md.; Sasser, Tenn.; Zorinsky, Neb. Republicans undecided (19): Boschwitz,

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Resident friend of court designate

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Editor’s note: By a vote of 99-0, the U.S. Senate Monday confirmed appointment of Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court. She will be administered the oath of office Friday , thus becoming the first woman on the high court .

To most people, Sandra Day O’Connor, who will be sworn in Friday as the nation ‘s first woman Supreme Court justice, is a picture on the cover of Time magazine. But those aren’t the pictures Medford real estate agent Calista Handwerg thinks of. As one of Mrs. O’Connor’s close college friends, Mrs. Handwerg has a photo album that shows other sides of the woman who will make the first feminine inroad into the 192-year-old institution. The album shows pictures of Mrs. O’Connor as a young Stanford University Law School student playing in the snow with her girlfriends at Crater Lake. There are pictures of a newly wed Mrs. O’Connor walking along the Applegate River with her husband, Bill. In the early 1950s, while at Stanford University, Mrs. Handwerg was a member of a clique of four friends, including Mrs. O’Connor. They met as housemates at a graduate woman student’s cooperative on campus. Mrs. Handwerg and another member of the Stanford group will attend the swearing in for Mrs. O’Connor in Washington, D.C., Friday . In recalling her college years, Mrs. Handwerg says she was attracted to Mrs. O’Connor because “she was a different person, not like anyone I ever knew before. ” She describes Mrs. O’Connor as having a keen intellect and an ability to cut to the

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Rep. West Claims Judge O’Connor’s Legislative Votes are Misinterpreted

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Rep. Donna Carlson West, RMesa, a leader of Arizona’s pro-life and anti-ERA forces, has mounted a strong defense of Judge Sandra O’Connor against the attacks of right-wing groups. In a letter Friday to Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, RTenn., the five- term lawmaker said she was “deeply distressed” at the anti-abortion and anti- ERA opposition to Mrs. O’Connor’s Supreme Court nomination, and insisted there was nothing on her record “that warrants the many unfounded, untrue charges that are being raised .” Mrs. West explained several of the votes cast by Mrs. O’Connor as a state senator from 1970-74 were being misinterpreted by her rightist foes. SHE ‘l’O~D the Phoen-ix G¥ette ……… — her conclusions were based on a recent conversation with Judge O’Connor, in which she sought to clear up the jurist’s positions on several issues. While the judge backed a resolution aimed at ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, she conceded, so did two other conservative Republicans – Trudy Camping and Bess Stinson, both of Phoenix – who later became ardent foes. “Since 1975, Sandra has been on the bench and has not spoken out for or against the ERA,” Mrs. West wrote Baker. Judge O’Connor’s legislative opposition to various anti-abortion proposals was often for other reasons, Mrs. West added. She voted against one measure to ban abortions at Tucson’s Univer!ity Hospital be- • cause it was not germane to the original bill, a..1d opposed a pro-life memorial to Congress because of her “general

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Republican Women Assailed on Votes

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., July 11 – Leading officials of the Democratic Party today challefW!d the National Women’s Political Caucus, one of the country’s two largest feminist political groups, to stop supporting Republican COngressWomen who YOte for the R .. gan Administration’s budget cuts. Polly Baca Barragan, an Arizona State Senator who Is vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told Democ.rats In the caucus that they should push for a re-evaluation of the orgamzation’s willingness to back such Republicans. “Even the Congress.. women who were elected. with feminist support,” she91.ld, “bad to toe the party line and vote against the economic surYiftl of the women of this country.•’ In an interview, Kathy Wil9oll, a Republican from AJeundrta, Va., who Is slated to be elected the national chairman of the caucw. tomouow, 9atd that senator Baca Barnpn’s approach would weaken both the caucus and the ability of Republican feml.aists to alter their party’s policy. “I want my party back.” she declared. Senator Bec:a Banagan’s demand brought into the open a crttk:al temton within this influential group. Among feminist political cqanJzattons. the caucus’s 55,000 members place it second only to the Natione.l 0rpnizatkln for women, which has 125,000 members, and its acti-,e Wasblnglon office and ro&- ter of experienced polltlctam in its membership ha-,e made it important in the capital. Stralal Wltldn ea– For years the caucus bas bad a distinettve blpartilansbip, but that characteristi

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Religion in Politics

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BARRY GOLDWATER is bound to lose his fight with the self-styled Moral Majority and other religious groups that have injected themselves into politics. This will not deter him. Goldwater has fought losing fights before. The fact remains that religious groups have always taken part in politics in this country. They have as much a right to under the Constitution as anyone else. Sometimes, they have served the nation well. The Right-to-Life movement never wearies of comparing itself with the abolitionist movement. In the light of history, the abolition movement was a noble one. The same can hardly be said of the campaign led by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Prohibition gave birth to organized crime. Religious groups that engage in politics are frequently offensive because they presume to have a pipeline to God. The liberal National Council of Churches is just as sure as the conservative Moral Majority that it speaks for God. AB. leader of the Moral Majority, the Rev. Jerry Falwell pretends to know even how God stands on the nomination of Sandra O’Connor to the.Supreme Court. Goldwater, who supports the nomination, is rightly outraged by this. “Mr. Conservative” also is rightly outraged by Falwell’s gall in lecturing him on how a conservative should vote in the Senate. Many find the very name, the Moral Majority, offensive, since it clearly implies that anyone who disagrees with Falwell is a moral leper. Actually, polls show that most Americans don’t go all the way with

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Reception Honors O’Connor, Others

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WASHINGTON (UPI) – President Reagan hosted a Rose Garden reception today for federal judges and the newest member of the Supreme Court, pledging to do all he can to “enhance the prestige and quality of the federal bench.” Chief Justice Warren Burger and Sandra Day O’Connor, who will be sworn in Friday as the high court’s first woman justice, were on hand for the reception. – Judge O’Connor, formerly on the • Arizona Court of Appeals bench, • was beaming as she and Reagan : strode from the Oval Office into : tbe brilliant sunlight that bathed the garden nearby. : Speaking to about 150 judges : from federal district and appellate : benches, Reagan said he was thankful for their daily reassurance “that our ideals of liberty and justice are alive and well in the United States.” The presiden t

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Reagan’s Shift to the Center Raises Clamor on the Right

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FOR seasoned watchers of President Reagan, his mid-week speech in Chicago was a familiar scene gone slightly, and tellingly, awry. His trusty index cards had given way to a teleprompter. The crisp cadences of his off-the-cuff orations were replaced by long and harshly partisan sentences that visibly wearied both Mr. Reagan and his audience. Despite the last-minute effort by aides to correct a ”mistake” in the speech text, Mr. Reagan admitted that his appointment of Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to the United States Supreme Court culminated a ”search for a highly qualified woman.”

Thus, with a phrase, Mr. Reagan contradicted the official White House position that selection of the nation’s first female justice had nothing to do with her sex. Mr. Reagan’s slip was an uncustomary admission of political reality, and in regard to such realities, this was a jolting week for the White House team. They face a short, hot July full of threats to Mr. Reagan’s popularity, to his effort to tone down his reputation as an ideologue while holding on to his conservative base, and to the remarkable legislative gains made so far in his term.

The O’Connor appointment brought unaccustomed praise from liberals and women’s groups, but it sparked an open revolt among some New Right and conservative Christian leaders. The White House gambled Mr. Reagan’s prestige in a Mississippi Congressional race and lost. Meanwhile, despite Administration efforts to downplay the ”social issues” on which Mr.

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Reagan signs O’Connor nomination

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Los Angeles (AP) – President Reagan has signed the nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, the White House announced Wednesday. The nomination was being sent to the Senate, which is due back in session Sept. 9 following a five-week recess. The nomination of O’Connor is subject to confirmation by the Senate. Reagan had announced July 7 that he planned to nominate O’Connor, 51, a state appeals court judge in Arizona, to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Associate Justice Potter Stewart on July 3. The White House also said that Reagan has appointed Warren Clark Jr. as deputy representative on the economic and social council of the United Nations. Clark, 45, a native of Bronxville, N.Y., is currently financial attache and treasury representative at the American embassy in Ottawa. He will succeed Robert Kaufman.

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Reagan’s Court Choice: A Deft Maneuver

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With his nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor for the Supreme Court vacancy, President Reagan has won admiring applause from rival politicians for a masterly political stroke as well as a strong judicial choice.
This city still recalls that a little over a decade ago President Richard M. Nixon had to face political humiliation when the Senate rejected two of his Court nominees, Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell.
Now, Mr. Reagan is being credited with an astute Court selection that immediately won the endorsement of a broad spectrum, from conservatives like Senator Barry Goldwater, Republican of Arizona, to liberals like Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts.
The President has risked a new breach with the radical right wing of the Republican Party, which has provided his most zealous political support through the years and is now openly dismayed over Mr. Reagan’s Court choice.
Blunts Democrats’ Charge
But in the process, several members of Congress commented, the President has blunted the right-wing stereotype that Democrats were beginning to use against him in the increasingly partisan battle over economic issues.
House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., Democrat of Massachusetts, who has been in a toe-to-toe battle with Mr. Reagan on the budget and taxes, called a truce long enough to hail Judge O’Connor’s nomination as ”the best thing he’s done since he was inaugurated.” Meanwhile, right-wing leaders were accusing the President of betraying the