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...approved by the Senate in September, was a stunning break with tradition. In its 191-year history, 101 judges have served on the nation's highest court, and all have been men. By giving the brethren their first sister, Reagan provided not only a breakthrough on the bench but a powerful push forward in the shamefully long and needlessly tortuous march of women toward full equality in American society...
Some experts see the current court as a transitional tribunal poised between the social activism of the distinctly liberal Warren court and whatever might lie ahead. Despite four appointments made by Richard Nixon and one by Gerald Ford, the Burger bench has retreated surprisingly little from the pioneering decisions on school integration, procedural rights for criminal defendants, and the "one man, one vote" principle of legislative apportionment. Moreover, the Burger court has broken some new ground. It was unanimous in restricting Nixon's Watergate-era claims of Executive privilege. It has upheld affirmative action to correct past racial inequities...
...stretch and stretch. So he doesn't miss workouts, not ever, though it means spending less time with his family and his girl. And when he's at the gym, he sneers a little inside at those who gossip and horse around when they could be doing flys and bench presses and straight leg raises and squats. By the time he's done, he has to drive home in the right hand lane, at ten miles an hour. "I'm so gone, it's like after sex," he says. "All I have the strength to do is smile." When...
...Supreme Court is an institution steeped in traditions: the round of handshakes before its conferences, the help the Justices give one another in donning robes before taking the bench and, each year, the barrage of weighty decisions during the term's final days. Sure enough, last week the court ended its nine-month session with several rulings that, while overshadowed by the Iranian assets case and the Agee passport decision, nevertheless remain significant...
Stewart has always relished his work. He never missed a day of oral arguments and often peppered attorneys with questions. His opinions are notably craftsmanlike, concise and crisply turned. An affable man away from the bench, his major interests aside from the law and his family (he has three children) are fishing and the Cincinnati Reds. During the 1973 playoffs between the Reds and the New York Mets, he was hearing arguments at the court and had his clerks slip him inning-by-inning, then batter-by-batter, reports. When Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation came through during...