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Supreme Court Justice WILLIAM BRENNAN at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.: "Rulers always have and always will find it dangerous to their security to permit people to think, believe, talk, write, assemble and particularly to criticize the government as they please. But the language of the First Amendment indicates that the founders weighed the risks involved in such freedoms and deliberately chose to stake this Government's security and life upon preserving the liberty to discuss public affairs intact and untouchable by Government...
...example: even when she agrees with the majority, she increasingly carves out her own position. She wrote eleven concurrences in the court's last term, second only to William Brennan's 14. Some of those helped establish her influence on the thinking of her fellow Justices--for example, in constitutional questions regarding religion. Thus two years ago, she joined a 5-to-4 majority upholding the constitutionality of a town-sponsored Nativity scene in Rhode Island. With reasoning that Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz calls "extremely elegant," she sought in a concurring opinion to draw a line between government actions...
Meese's doctrine is no more restrained or apolitical than that of his opponent on this issue, Supreme Court Justice William Brennan. Despite his proclaimed Constitutional piety, Meese merely seeks a backward-looking judiciary...
...fifth Mentorship grant has been awarded to Cabot Professor of History Ernst Badian and graduate student T. Corey Brennan, who will be offering "Barbarians in Greek and Roman Historiography...
...grand jury that indicted him. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that he must be charged and tried again or set free. It was a decision that saw such ordinarily conservative Justices as Sandra Day O'Connor and Byron White joining such liberals as William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. The state argued that although blacks should not have been intentionally excluded from the judge-selected Kings County grand jury, it was "a harmless error." But Justice Marshall responded for the majority that overturning the conviction was "the only effective remedy for this violation...