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Complete Constitution a (Amend.reit. the judiciare. Sukiem. RECONFIRMATION OF FEDERAL JUDGES

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S.J. Res. 106

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES WITH RESPECT TO RECONFIRMA-
TION OF FEDERAL JUDGES AFTER A TERM OF EIGHT

YEARS

21-183

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1973

Byrd, Hon. Harry F., Jr., U.S. Senator from Virginia__
Freund, Paul M., Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law
School, Cambridge, Mass..

Shuford, Paul M., attorney, Wallenstein, Goode, Dobbins, Shuford,
Richmond, Va.; president, Bar Association of the City of Richmond,
Va...

Kurland, Philip B., professor of law, University of Chicago Law School,
Chicago, Ill.; chief consultant to the Subcommittee on Separation of
Powers, Senate Committee on the Judiciary---

STATEMENTS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD

Godwin, Hon. Mills E., Jr., Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia....
Gray, Mr. Earl Q., attorney, Ardmore, Okla_

Kuykendall, J. Sloan, senior partner, Kuykendall, Hall & Whiting, Win-
chester, Va.; president of the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners, former
president of the Virginia State Bar

Segal, Bernard G., senior partner, Schnader, Hamilton, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa.; former president of the American Bar Association, president of the American College of Trial Lawyers, chairman of the board of the American Judicature Society

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Bar Association of the City of New York, report of the Federal Courts Committee on a proposed amendment to the Constitution to require reconfirmation of Federal judges every 8 years. (S.J. Res. 106)Battisti, Hon. Frank J., "The Independence of the Federal Judiciary,' Boston College Industrial and Commercial Law Review, vol. 13, No. 3, p. 421 (1972)_

Bennett, Mr. Hubert D., executive secretary, Supreme Court of Virginia, letter to Hon. Harry F. Byrd, Jr., May 15, 1972.

Berger, Raoul, "Impeachment of Judges and 'Good Behavior' Tenure,'
the Yale Law Journal, vol. 79, No. 8, p. 1475 (1970) --

Bickel, Alexander M., professor of law, Yale Law School, New Haven,
Conn., letter to Hon. Birch Bayh, May 9, 1972.

Byrd, Hon. Harry F., Jr., U.S. Senator from Virginia, letter to Hon.
Albertis S. Harrison, Jr.-

Choper, Jesse, professor of law, school of law, University of California,
Berkeley, letter to Hon. Birch Bayh

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Christian, Hon. Winslow, director, National Center for State Courts,
Washington, D.C., letter to Hon. Birch Bayh, May 18, 1972__.
Davis, Robert R., Jr., "The Chandler Incident and Problems of Judicial
Removal," Stanford Law Review, vol. 19, p. 448 (1967)---
Elsen, Mr. Sheldon H., Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia University
School of Law, New York, N. Y., letter to Hon. Birch Bayh, May 11, 1972.
Ervin, Hon. Sam J., Jr., "Separation of Powers: Judicial Independence"
Law and Contemporary Problems--

The Federalist, excerpts from Nos. LXV, LXVI, LXXVIII, LXXIX.
Frankel, Jack E., "Judicial Discipline and Retirement-the California
Plan" Illinois Bar Journal, vol. 58 (1970) -