Word: brennan
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Supreme Court Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. on September 5 called for the high court to reverse its position and declare capital punishment unconstitutional...
Returning to the school where he earned a law degree in 1931. Brennan told a Sanders Theater throng that the Eighth Amendment prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment" does not clearly dictate a position on the death penalty...
...seems we just can't know what punishment the framers considered cruel and unusual," Brennan said, adding that the "majestic generality" of the Constitution paves the way for modern interpretations by jurists...
...Guard, the nation's Governors fret about losing control of the troops they like to think of as their own. More than half-a-dozen Governors have said they would rebuff Pentagon calls for Guardsmen to serve along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. Some, like Maine's Joseph Brennan and Arizona's Bruce Babbitt, are reluctant to help the Reagan Administration in its support of the contras. Most of the reservations, however, arise from the Governors' determination to retain full authority to use the Guard in such politically popular activities as patrolling areas devastated by storms or restoring order in violent...
Associate Court Justices William J. Brennan and Harry A. Blackmun made this earthshattering disclosure in an unannounced question-and-answer session held yesterday at the Law School. According to these two arbiters of the law, their future boss, William H. Rehnquist, plays a mean game of trivia...