Rehnquist Nomination
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Rehnquist as chief justice are nothing less than a circus with the liberals sharpening their axes to cut him down.
I can think of no one less deserving to question the honorable man of law on his moral and ethical background than Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.).
Two points have emerged from the hearings, however. One is the stupendous gall--as well as stupidity--of Kennedy, and the other is the slow thinking process of Rehnquist.
Following his string of asinine and nit-picking questions to Rehnquist simply because of the latter’s philosophy being less liberal than his, Kennedy questioned him on an episode that occurred in the early ‘60s, to which Rehnquist missed a wonderful opportunity to silence him with the reply: “Why, Senator, that occurred many years before Chappaquiddick, and at that time you couldn’t even remember what happened the day before!”
Somehow I think that the questioning would have stopped abruptly at that point.
STANLEY R. DRURY
Los Angeles
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