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Justices Marshall, Stevens, William Brennan and Harry Blackmun wrote four separate dissenting opinions. But all agreed that the court majority was permitting Congress to deny poor women the constitutional right to an abortion, which the court itself had said all women possess. The Government, said Stevens, must govern impartially. He condemned the Hyde Amendment as "an unjustifiable, and indeed blatant, violation" of that duty...
...majority, led by Justice William Brennan, declared that the old act did indeed allow individuals to sue states for violating federal law. What is more, the court ruled that under a 1976 statute, successful plaintiffs may recover legal fees from the losing party in such cases. In a 23-page dissent, Justice Lewis Powell scolded the majority for ignoring "the lessons of history, logic, and policy" in extending the act beyond protection of civil rights. He predicted a rash of suits against the states for their handling of food stamps, educational benefits and other federal programs...
Enter her new lawn-distance neighbor. Hannah Mae Bindler (Eileen Brennan), a Lone-Star State emigree, is wearing a garish outfit, and her accessories are an unstoppered tongue and the musk of a rampant libido. Culture clash soon gives way to kaffeeklatsch. Maude reveals that her husband is off on one of his adulterous secretarial safaris. Despite having suffered the occasional infidelity, Hannah Mae claims that her husband Carl Joe "don't take a breath unless I say, 'Carl Joe, breathe...
Director Dorothy Lyman has meshed the two women's disparate natures with the controlled firmness of the potter's hand. Brennan has the personality of a vulnerable bulldozer, while Sarandon arcs over and under her emotional crises like a dolphin...
...reason to think Innis was unusually disoriented or particularly susceptible to observations about the welfare of the handicapped children; the officers' "offhand remarks" therefore should not be viewed as a form of interrogation or its "functional equivalent." Two of the dissenting Justices, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, felt the remarks should indeed have been read as an appeal to the suspect's conscience. But Justice John Paul Stevens went further, rejecting the majority's definition of interrogation as a "plain departure" from Miranda's principles...