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...partial dissent, Justice William Brennan warned that White's balancing act "portends a dangerous weakening of the purpose of the Fourth Amendment to protect the privacy and security of our citizens." James Weill, legal director of the Washington-based Children's Defense Fund, claimed that "the court hasn't been sufficiently protective of the unique status of children." Weill believes the court should offset children's vulnerability by giving them added rights and protections...
...high court's flip-flop in the Stephens case reflects a deep fitfulness over capital punishment. "It takes its toll psychologically, and that spills into nasty memos," says one Supreme Court law clerk. Last year in one dissent, Justice William Brennan was especially bitter. "The court has once again rushed to judgment," he wrote, "apparently eager to reach a fatal conclusion...
...professors are all reluctant to peer into the crystal ball and predict just how many appointment Reagan will get to make, but it doesn't take an actuarial table to realize that the ideological balance of power in the Court is at stake. Of the nine justices five-Blackmun, Brennan Burger, Marshall and Powell-are 75 years or older and of these, everyone except Burger comes form the moderate and liberal faction of the court. Should the President get to make two appointments, a reasonable estimate, the Court's teeem drift to the right could become a stampede...
...there is little collegiality. "It's not like you walk into a room and four of them are laughing together about a baseball game," says a former law clerk for Brennan. "They walk to conference arm in arm, but during the week they don't pal around together." Justice Lewis Powell calls the Brethren "nine one-man law firms." Says Blackmun: "There is very little humor...
...Connor is a likely vote against abortion The staunchest defenders of the decision-Brennan, Marshall and Blackmun-are all at least 75 years old. "All of our guys are the old men," says Nanette Falkenberg, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League. The court, it would appear, is already primed for a switch; a single appointment might be all the shove that it needs. But even for a determinedly conservative court, reversing Roe would be a momentous step. Since so many women have relied on the decision, says Columbia's Blasi, to overturn it "would be Prohibition...