Lewis Franklin Powell Jr.(Commentary)(Editorials)

The Washington Times | August 30, 1998 | Copyright

He will probably go down in history as a moderate's moderate, a Nixon-appointed Supreme Court justice who, true to his patrician Richmond background, brokered one thoughtful, pragmatic court compromise after another. When the news arrived that Lewis Powell had died at the age of 90, the media and others praised him accordingly, calling him a "voice of moderation," a "balancer and compromiser, a political moderate with an aversion to heated rhetoric and doctrinal rigidity," and a "consensus builder."

In fact, while the courtly Mr. Powell was many things - an ...

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