York, saying that he had violated the law by conducting Operation Menu without Congress's approval. Three members of the United States Air Force joined her lawsuit and Burt Neuborne worked as her lawyer. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented her, it was the second time that a member of Congress had challenged the legality of a president's conduct in war since Abraham Lincoln questioned the Mexican–American War. Judge Orrin Grimmell Judd ruled in Holtzman's favor on July 25, 1973, and issued an order to end the bombings, but the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the decision. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall upheld the court's stay of proceedings, but Justice William O. Douglas vacated the stay order on August 4, causing the bombing suspension to be returned. Three hours later, Marshall and the other justices halted the original ruling, ordering the suspension of bombings to circumvent Douglas's decision. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger declined to call a special term for the court to hear the case. In 1979, U.S. Representative Jimmy Wilson, who had narrowly lost reelection the previous year to Buddy Leach, accused Leach of purchasing enough votes to win both the primary and general elections. The House voted 241 to 153 not to advance Wilson's objections on a mostly party-line vote. Holtzman was one of only four Democrats to vote in support of Wilson's challenge. Holtzman supported George McGovern in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. She endorsed Herman Badillo for the Democratic nomination during the 1973 New York City mayoral election. She endorsed Ramsey Clark's New York senatorial campaign during the 1974 election. She supported Governor Hugh Carey in the 1978 gubernatorial election. She received two delegate votes for the vice-presidential nomination at the 1980 Democratic National Convention. Watergate Holtzman was one of the first members of the Judiciary Committee to support starting impeachment proceedings against Nixon, in 1973. The committee voted, with Holtzman voting no, to extend the deadline for Nixon to hand over his tape recordings. She voted in favor of an attempt by Representative John Conyers to have Nixon cited for contempt of Congress that failed, 32 to 5. Holtzman wrote Article IV of the impeachment charges, which charged Nixon with the violation of the War Powers Clause, and it was introduced by Conyers. It failed, 26 to 12,