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24 | Let’s Make a Deal GoRton And evAns ignited a right-wing firestorm on March 4, 1986, when they nominated William L. Dwyer to a vacant seat on the U.S. District Court in Seattle. Before it was over, the left was also mad as hell at Gorton, and Adams had another juicy issue to exploit. Characters from past dramas—friend and foe alike—keep popping up on the changing sets of Gorton’s life. It was Dwyer who won a libel verdict in 1964 for John Goldmark, with Gorton as a character witness for the liberal legislator falsely accused of being a communist. And it was Dwyer whom Gorton sent to the mound against the American League owners in 1976 to secure a new ball club for Seattle. A proud member of the ACLU, Dwyer went on to represent a Black Panther, pro bono; won a state Supreme Court decision overturning a Seattle movie censorship ordinance and defended a controversial children’s sex-education book at the Public Library. Dwyer, in short, resoundingly flunked the Reagan Administration’s litmus test for prudent jurisprudence. “This man is not even a Republican!” huffed State Senator Jack Metcalf, demonstrating remarkable powers of observation. Ashley Holden, one of the defendants in the Goldmark case, was a hero to the state’s unreconstructed Republican right. Noisily alive and well at 92, he said he still knew a pinko when he saw one. “Dwyer is a left-wing liberal and a Democrat, and why would a Republican senator want to nominate a man like that?” Because he is extraordinarily well qualified, said Gorton and Evans. Dwyer “exemplifies what a judge should be,” King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng, another Republican, said later as the debate intensified. 1 When Reagan and Attorney General Ed Meese stonewalled Dwyer’s nomination, Gorton informed the White House that he would vote against Daniel Manion, an Indiana lawyer the president desperately wanted on the federal bench. The son of a John Birch Society director who was the Rush Limbaugh of his day, Manion was characterized as a “barely literate” conservative ideologue by his foes. Forty law school deans 209
210 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics asserted that he was a mediocre lawyer. Even the Senate Judiciary Committee, which had a Republican majority, deadlocked on his nomination to the Seventh Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago. Gorton said Manion’s qualifications were “no more than marginal.” Seattle Post- Intelligencer columnist John De Yonge wrote, “The fact is, Gorton, when he was state attorney general, wouldn’t have hired Manion as a 99 th assistant attorney general in charge of writing clam laws.” 2 Scrambling for votes to avoid having to cave in on Dwyer, the Justice Department made a deal with David Durenberger, a Republican from Minnesota who had balked at Manion. If he’d vote for Manion, his own nominee for a federal judgeship would get the go-ahead after 10 months in limbo. Democrats agreed to a roll call, believing that with Gorton and Evans on their side and some other tricks up their sleeve they still had enough votes to defeat Manion. The Durenberger deal hadn’t escaped Gorton. He was more determined than ever to see Dwyer on the bench. It was June 26, the day of the vote: Evans, Gorton, Bob Dole and several other senators were plopped on the old leather sofa in the Republican cloakroom just off the Senate floor. Quayle came charging in, saying he needed more votes for Manion. “Why should I support Manion,” Gorton said, “when I can’t get Dwyer’s nomination out of the damn Justice Department?” Dole grabbed the phone. “Get me Ed Meese!” he barked to the operator. The attorney general wasn’t immediately available, but the majority leader left a blunt message: Tell him they’d better get the lead out on Dwyer if they want Manion. 3 As the roll call was getting under way, Gorton received a call from the White House: Vote for Manion and we’ll stop blocking Dwyer. Gorton’s vote made it 47-47. Vice President Bush had the tie-breaker. Senator Byrd, The Reagans and the Gortons. Gorton Family Album
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