Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David McCauley, a Quaker activist from Putney, Vt., organized the successful campaign in his state. "We needed ways for people to act locally," McCauley says. 'The town meeting format is just that...
That judicial self-restraint has certainly not marked the Supreme Court during most of the past three decades; justices like William O. Dougles, the "Great Dissenter," carved out activist roles and frequently invalidated legislation that they felt contradicted basic American values. To such judges, Ely's answer is simple: "It must be very frustrating for people who think they understand things better than elected officials. But that's what they ought to learn to be--frustrated...
...arguing for judicial passivism in the name of democracy is nothing new; scholars have done it for generations, raising their voices in particular in the aftermath of the liberal activist Court of Chief Justice Earl Warren--which provoked the wrath of conservatives by striking down legislation with regularity during the 1950s and 1960s. What makes Ely's approach unique is that he spotlights a small area in which he argues judges must exert their authority. As a result, he likes to call himself "a selective activist...
...Turk says. Just to make sure, HRE is trying to hasten the union's departure--a signal that perhaps HTU is beginning to have some small effect on Harvard's decision-making process. HRE has sent an employee to spy on a tenants' meeting, threatened at least one HTU activist with eviction, and broken out the heavy legal artillery to fight tenants at 8 Plympton St. who have been receiving assistance from Turk. At a recent rent control board meeting, HRE attorney Daniel Polvere filed an abnormally long--20 page--brief for Harvard, and stated that the rent board would...
...most revered Justices simultaneously practiced law and politics. Previously unpublished documents show that during his service on the Supreme Court (1916-39), Brandeis paid his protege Frankfurter, then a Harvard law professor, some $50,000 to act as a political lieutenant. Frankfurter's mission: to promote social activist goals that might have been viewed as inappropriate for Brandeis himself to advocate...