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...wrote 20 dissenting opinions, twice as many as any other Justice. The year before, he wrote 22 dissents. Sometimes Harlan is supported in them by Justices White, Clark and Stewart, but he is regularly beaten by the five so-called "activists": Chief Justice War ren and Justices Douglas, Black, Brennan and Goldberg...
...American system of criminal prosecution," wrote Justice William Brennan, "is accusatorial, not inquisitorial, and the Fifth Amendment is its essential mainstay." With those words, Brennan last week announced the Supreme Court's decision to reverse the contempt conviction of a small-time Connecticut 52-year-old gambler named William Malloy and extend the protection of the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination to witnesses and defendants, whatever their status, in all state courts...
HELLO, DOLLY! (RCA Victor). Almost everyone who can carry a tune has recorded Jerry Herman's title song, but it sounds mellowest and best here where it came from. Eileen Brennan makes Ribbons Down My Back send shivers. However, it is the meddling matchmaker. Carol Channing. all brass and honey, who firmly takes over the proceedings when she announces, / Put My Hand In, and stays zanily in charge till she gurgles So Long, Dearie...
...what the newsmen accompanying Goldwater saw, and this was what they reported in their predictions of defeat. Theirs was a limited vantage point. What they missed was the fact that while Rockefeller carried his organization around with him, Goldwater's, as masterminded by Los Angeles Attorney Bernard Brennan, was much larger, infinitely more zealous, and was hard at work in almost every precinct in the state...
Some clerks have extralegal duties as well. The late Justice Stone had his clerks accompany him on walks, and Justice Black until recently was suspected of picking clerks for their tennis skill. But real influence? On a Supreme Court Justice? Snaps Mr. Justice Brennan: "Judging is not delegated." Adds one ex-Warren clerk: "The Justices can't even change one another's opinion, and if they can't do that, no law clerk is going to change their minds...