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...decline. Whatever the differences in their conclusions-and they were many-Justices Black and Harlan were the court's intellectual pillars, sustaining reputations for judicial integrity, dignity and tight reasoning through some of the court's most turbulent years. Combining half a century of service on the bench, they cannot be replaced by any pair who could immediately command a similar respect from their colleagues, or from the legal profession. Blemished by the resignation under fire of Justice Abe Fortas, the abortive attempts to impeach Douglas, and Nixon's unsuccessful efforts to elevate two lesser jurists, Clement...
Capital Punishment. What that will mean in impending cases is not at all certain, but TIME Washington Correspondent Dean Fischer, who covers the court, believes that the new bench will break little fresh judicial ground-thus dooming some far-reaching claims now before it. Fischer predicts that it will decide that capital punishment is an issue to be decided by state legislatures, not the Supreme Court-and executions may resume for the first time since 1967. Similarly, pleas by prison inmates claiming constitutional rights to legal assistance and contending that solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punishment will probably...
Finally she seats you on a long bench-like couch, surrounded by potted plastic palms and the kind of pastel spotlights that most Hollywood apartments have only on the outside, underneath what you take must be a self-portrait of herself in the nude...
Kennedy said President Nixon has the "obligation to reflect the mood of the country" by appointing two liberal supreme court justices--men of the same "vision" as Justices Black and Harlan--and added he would be pleased to see a "qualified" woman justice on the bench...
Dissents into Law. His appointment would mean a further step in Nixon's effort to move the high bench away from the judicial activism of the Warren Court.* Since many feel that the era should more properly be labeled the "Black Court," it is fitting that its end may be marked by the senior Justice's retirement. Born in a tiny cabin in Harlan, Ala., Black made his way to the U.S. Senate in 1927 on a platform of populism. As a loyal New Dealer, he was Franklin Roosevelt's first appointment after the F.D.R. court-packing...