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Resistance to the appointment, President Reagan assured a political rally in Miami last week, had come from a "little lynch mob." Some "little lynch mob": half the U.S. Senate, backed by a phalanx of other politicians and legal scholars, all opposing the President's nomination of Archconservative Daniel Manion to a federal judgeship. The final vote of the Senators was 49 to 49. The roll call came on the question of whether to reconsider an earlier vote, one that would have been 47 to 47 but tipped 48 to 46 for confirmation only because the rules forced Senate Democratic Leader...
...showdown that ended weeks of tense maneuvering and blatant logrolling by pro-Manion forces, Senators divided mainly along party lines, with only two Democrats for Manion and five Republicans against. The deans of some 40 law schools protested the appointment on the ground that Manion was short on experience and competence. A South Bend, Ind., lawyer who is a former state legislator and son of a leader of the ultraconservative John Birch Society, Manion, 44, has never argued a case before a federal appeals court. The American Bar Association had found Manion "qualified," but that is its lowest passing grade...
...Manion has never authored an academic article and has limited experience in federal court. Some senators have criticized his ties to the political work of his father, who was an active member of the John Birch Society...
...addition, a letter signed by Vorenberg and other law deans said Manion had knowingly violated Supreme Court rulings he did not favor when serving as a legislator in his home state of Indiana...
...Reagan Administration and the Justice Department hailed Manion's confirmation as a victory over partisan politics, saying that liberal senators and law scholars had fought Manion because of his ideological beliefs rather than his qualifications to judge...