Word: brennan
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Adds Michigan Supreme Court Justice Thomas E. Brennan: "Our technology is already in the 21st century. It is time for the legal profession to embark on a bold new adventure...
Penn is extremely strong in the middle weight classes. Dave Groverman (126), Jeff Thorne (134), Don Decker (150) and Tom Brennan (158) all won their divisions at last year's Plebe tournament. Harvard will need strong performances from Carl Biello (126), Jerry Kahrilas (134) and Josh Henson (142) in order to stay with the Quakers...
...confirmed, Rehnquist and Powell will join the President's two other appointees, Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice Harry Blackmun. The Old liberal, activist Warren majority has now shrunk to three: Justices William Brennan Jr., 65: Thurgood Marshall, 63; and William O. Douglas, 73. Holding four seats, the conservative Nixon Justices will also be a minority, with the balance of power exercised in the middle by Potter Stewart, 56, and Byron White, 54. But the bench will have been heavily tipped to the right by the Nixon bloc. It is now virtually a Nixon Court...
...Nixon court apparently will thus line up with Burger, Blackmun and the two new appointees in an almost automatically conservative group on which Nixon can count; Douglas and Marshall will be isolated on the left, frequently joined by Brennan; Stewart and White will be in the center, devoid of Harlan's influence and even more unpredictable than before...
Troublesome Standard? With some pain, Burger conceded that the "line of [church-state] separation, far from being a 'wall,' is a blurred, indistinct and variable barrier." His reasoning was too blurred for Justices William O. Douglas, Hugo Black, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, who dissented in the college-aid decision. None of them could see why Government support of secular services should be more entangling in schools than colleges. All thought that the court should have banned aid to colleges too; Justice Byron White, the lone supporter of school-level aid, argued that if colleges meet the Allen...