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Among others calling for an open convention is Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, an early and vociferous Carter critic who was expected to urge other Democratic Governors to back a free vote at a meeting in Denver over the weekend. Governors Hugh Carey of New York, Joe Brennan of Maine, Tom Judge of Montana and Arthur Link of North Dakota have announced an anti-Carter position on the rule. So too have Senators Warren Magnuson of Washington, J. James Exon of Nebraska and Don Riegle of Michigan. The Pennsylvania delegation, which backs Kennedy narrowly, 94 to 91, is overwhelmingly in favor...
That ruling, overturned by Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, said male- only draft registration is unconstitutional because men are entitled to "equal protection" under...
...ruling set the Justice Department scrambling to get one of the nine vacationing Supreme Court Justices to issue a stay order that would suspend the Philadelphia decision. At week's end, barely 40 hours before registration was to begin, Justice William J. Brennan Jr. granted the stay from his summer home on Nantucket Island, Mass. As a result, registration will proceed as planned pending a final decision on the case by the full court, possibly by early fall...
...Garbo." Typically, he starts by writing a stream-of-consciousness memo, and then his clerks convert it to the standard format. Stevens' opinions may become increasingly significant. His liberal votes take on a special prominence because of the diminished influence in recent years of old-line liberals William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. So far, his novel theories and poor salesmanship have prevented him from becoming a leader. But Stevens is well aware that many a lonely dissent of the past is now law; he expects his impact to take time. And despite open-heart surgery in 1974, Stevens...
...said, since white-owned firms continue to get the vast bulk of the nation's construction business, and Congress can legitimately require innocent whites to "share the burden" of making up for past discrimination so long as that burden is not unreasonable. In a concurring opinion, Justices Blackmun, Brennan and Marshall put less stress on the powers of Congress and more on the general principle that society must, in Marshall's words, promote "meaningful equality of opportunity, not an abstract version of equality in which the effects of past discrimination would be forever frozen into our social fabric...