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This year Corey T. Brennan, a fourth-yeargraduate student in classics and a tutor in AdamsHouse, will host an orgy of Hawaiian Steel Guitarmusic, which he says, "will feature Roy Smeck, theEddie Van Halen of the 1920s." Other orgies, suchas the one on George Gershwin, feature Broadwaymusic, another musical genre normally aired on thestation...
...victim of Reynolds' diatribe was none other than eminent Supreme Court liberal, Associate Justice William Brennan. Brennan's opinions, Reynolds declared, demonstrate that the Justice seeks a "radical egalitarian" society...
...good justice, according to Reynolds' standards, must allow his opinions to reflect today's political trends. Because Brennan is so often at odds with Administration positions, he is undermining the people's elected government...
...ironically, Reynolds' analysis does not quibble with Brennan's reasoning, judicial philosophy or approach to the Constitution. Reynolds' critique does not set forth a coherent theory of jurisprudence. Rather, his objections are purely political and entirely issue-based. His argument simply reduces to the claim that Brennan has taken the wrong side on too many cases...
Ideology, Reynolds thus implies, is the proper--in fact the only--standard by which justices should be evaluated. By refusing to abandon more than 20 years of consistent judicial reasoning and a rights-based approach to the Constitution in order to jump on the Reagan bandwagon, Brennan utterly fails to meet the Reynold's test of judicial competence. If Brennan is a dangerous judge because of his generally liberal opinions, then only a committed conservative can save the country and the honorable Court...