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...Fridays, they enter a spacious, oak- paneled conference room, located behind the courtroom. Following a century- old custom, they shake hands with one another and then settle around the rectangular conference table, with the Chief at one end and the senior Associate Justice, currently William Brennan, at the other. The most junior, now Antonin Scalia, sits to Brennan's right and answers any knocks on the door or hands out any messages necessary. No law clerk or other person is in the room during the conference...
...WILLIAM BRENNAN...
...case holding that servicewomen have the same right to benefits for their spouses as servicemen do, Brennan reviewed the status of women...
Writing for the majority, Justice William Brennan declared that the Louisiana requirement ran afoul of the First Amendment's ban on laws "respecting an establishment of religion." He found that creation science "embodies the religious belief that a supernatural creator was responsible for the creation of humankind." Therefore, he concluded, the statute's mandate that it be taught "advances a religious doctrine" and "seeks to employ the symbolic and financial support of government to achieve a religious purpose...
...applied against juveniles, but only about 33 prisoners would be affected. While individual challenges may prevent the death row floodgates from opening all at once this year, the consolidation of capital punishment appears nearly complete. The Justices writing last week seemed to know that. Summoning particular eloquence, Dissenter Brennan said, "It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily...