Word: brennan
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Research Gap. To high-ranking officers like Moorer, U.S. military power "has clearly peaked and is now declining." Arms Control Expert Donald G. Brennan of the Hudson Institute fears that if the purse strings are not loosened, the Soviet Union "will pull ahead both in terms of strategic and conventional forces." Both to maintain the strength necessary to make detente work and to protect itself, the U.S. cannot wait for that to happen before acting. New weapons take five to ten years to reach production. General George S. Brown, head of the Air Force Systems Command, points out that...
Trouble is, he and others like him, acting on their own, might not be able to afford the expenses involved in proving a complex case. That does "no judicial system credit," said William Brennan for Fellow Dissenters William Douglas and Thurgood Marshall. The three also pointed out that the decision could lead to more individual suits in the state and federal courts where previously one collective proceeding would have covered a specific issue. But the majority apparently believes that tough standards will at least cut the federal work load. Consumer and environmental advocates fear that the new decision...
...authority to search." That has always been true for people charged with serious crimes; this time the court was refusing to make a distinction or to call for less intrusive treatment even though a traffic offense was the only reason for the arrest. The minority of Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan and William Douglas thought that such distinctions were precisely what judges should consider in trying to decide whether a search was reasonable as required by the Fourth Amendment...
...down to consider their current harvest of pornography cases, they found themselves in rare and unanimous agreement on one point: the procedures then in effect for handling the problem were a hopeless failure. Thus they concluded that the entire legal definition of obscenity had to be reexamined. Justice William Brennan, chief architect of the court's gradual course toward liberalization, argued urgently that virtually all pornography bans should be scrapped as constitutionally unworkable. With no less force, Chief Justice Warren Burger spoke in favor of stricter standards, "more concrete than those in the past." Last week, in a decision...
...court's dissenting minority freely conceded that the prior attempts to establish limits to pornography had failed miserably. "After 15 years of experimentation and debate," said William Brennan, "I am reluctantly forced to the conclusion that none of the available formulas" are acceptable. He favored dropping all prohibitions except those to protect juveniles and adults who wish to avoid smut. As a result he opposed the Chief Justice's new effort at definition. "Even a legitimate, sharply focused state concern for the morality of the community," he said, "cannot . . . justify an assault on the protections of the First...