Word: brennan
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Justice Harry Blackmun, author of the majority opinion in the original Roe decision, predicts that Roe will likely "go down the drain this term." Even if it doesn't, Blackmun and his liberal brethren, Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, are teetering on the brink of retirement. Another Republican-appointed justice would seal Roe's fate...
...recent Kadrmas case represents a shameful retreat from the position laid out in Brown. In the words of 82-year old Justice William Brennan, who wrote a dissent in the Kadrmas case, the ruling shows "a callous indifference to the realities of the life of the poor," who demographically represent our country's future...
...ruling was the requirement that all government distinctions based on race be subject to "strict scrutiny." This means that public-sector affirmative-action programs are valid only if they serve the "compelling state interest" of redressing "identified discrimination." Justice Thurgood Marshall, in a bitter dissent joined by Justices William Brennan and Harry Blackmun, called the decision "a deliberate and giant step backward in this court's affirmative-action jurisprudence...
...tobacco industry, used to harsh reports from the Surgeon General, tried to blunt the latest attack with newspaper ads saying that "enough is enough." Said Brennan Dawson, a spokeswoman for the Tobacco Institute: "The report represents an escalation in the antismoking campaign." Surgeon General Koop certainly hopes so. His stated goal is to make the U.S. a "smoke-free society by the year...
...missed that shot because the player plays for Vermont. We are a timid, scared team right now and I have to get the losing demon out of our system. We have to exorcise it out, and it's my fault that we haven't yet."--Vermont basketball Coach Tom Brennan after Catamount Mike Lubas missed a wide-open layup at the buzzer during his team's 53-51 loss to Harvard...