Word: brennan
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Leading the Fordham offense will be senior quarterback Gary Brennan, who has thrown for 738 yards and 5 touchdowns in his first four games. Brennan will look for receiver John Potamousis, who has already hauled in two TD's and compiled 230 yards receiving...
Sure, his beliefs are on the ugly side of right-wing. Yes, conservative "natural law" is worse than Marshall's or William J. Brennan's own liberal "natural law." But this has predictably done nothing to sway fence-sitting Senate Judiciary Committee members, who are eager to avoid the bloody political battle such rationales for rejection would spark, and who are wary of voting against a Black anyway. (Especially those Southern Democrats so crucial in flaying Bork's high court prospects...
Marshall's detractors called him an indifferent Justice, prone to watching television in his chambers. (He once assured his friend Justice William Brennan you could learn a lot about life from soap operas.) By most accounts Marshall had spotty interest in areas of the law beyond civil rights, criminal law and free expression. But despite poor health in recent years -- his eyesight is failing, he wears a hearing aid, and he broke his hip in a fall last year -- he was determined to keep his seat as long as the likely replacement was another conservative nominee. With cantankerous tongue...
Though Marshall's retirement gives President Bush another chance to shape the direction of the high court, there was little rejoicing at the White House. The departure last year of Justice William Brennan, who had been the leader of the court's liberal wing, tipped the balance and allowed Bush to install a conservative majority at last by appointing David Souter. Replacing Marshall will not have the same impact; it will mainly mean that what would have been 5-to-4 decisions are likely to be 6 to 3. But even so, the search for a successor to the court...
...White House has a short list of candidates that was compiled and updated when Brennan stepped down. Among the names most often mentioned -- all conservative Republicans -- are Clarence Thomas, 43, a black federal appeals judge from Washington; Ricardo Hinojosa, 40, a Mexican-American federal district judge from Texas; and Edith Jones, 41, a white federal appeals judge from Houston. But Bush has a penchant for surprise nominations -- witness his choice of Dan Quayle as a running mate -- and he might indulge it this time...