Letter from Washington

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Those who read only the newly neo-conservative press might conclude, not unreasonably, that all the liberal activists have turned out the lights in the storefront and gone off to work for Gulf & Western. Not so, in truth. They are still here in impressive numbers and their chutzpah continues to amaze us one-foot-in-front-of-the-other types. The summer enthusiasm of the visceral Left, if you can believe it, is the ouster of Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan from the Supreme Court. Marshall’s health has been failing for some time and Brennan’s vigor is not what it used to be, but the motivation behind the campaign to force them from the high bench is anything but humanitarian. Plainly put, the motivation is to deny two lifetime appointments to the next President of the United States. For all its problems with James Earl Carter, the Left would prefer his signature on Court nominations to that of Ronald Wilson Reagan.

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Those who read only the newly neo-conservative press might conclude, not unreasonably, that all the liberal activists have turned out the lights in the storefront and gone off to work for Gulf & Western. Not so, in truth. They are still here in impressive numbers and their chutzpah continues to amaze us one-foot-in-front-of-the-other types. The summer enthusiasm of the visceral Left, if you can believe it, is the ouster of Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan from the Supreme Court. Marshall’s health has been failing for some time and Brennan’s vigor is not what it used to be, but the motivation behind the campaign to force them from the high bench is anything but humanitarian. Plainly put, the motivation is to deny two lifetime appointments to the next President of the United States. For all its problems with James Earl Carter, the Left would prefer his signature on Court nominations to that of Ronald Wilson Reagan.