Word: brennans
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WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, 74, a Republican appointed by Eisenhower in 1957, has been a consistent liberal with a broad view of judicial powers. The court's only Roman Catholic, voted to end obstacles to abortion, then suffered through demands that he be excommunicated. Personally distrusts the press, and in recent years has generally avoided interviews, but devoutly defends First Amendment rights. Is known to dislike Nixon so much that three years ago, when tempted to resign in order to spend more time with his seriously ill wife, he decided to stay in office rather than let the President appoint another...
...their main decision, St. Clair drew relatively few objections to his contention that the Watergate grand jury did not have the right to name Nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator in the cover-up case. "For the purposes of our decision, we can just lay that fact aside," Justice Brennan observed. But St. Clair claimed that it had already prejudiced the impeachment inquiry against Nixon and that he had been unfairly reduced to "an 85% President...
...impeachment that obviously most concerned St. Clair. Reversing their normal roles of worrying about the ultimate impact of a decision rather than the narrow legal question before the court, the more liberal Justices this time seemed to dismiss impeachment as of no concern in this case. Declared Brennan: "You have not convinced me that we are drawn into it by deciding this case. How are we drawn into the impeachment proceedings by deciding this case...
...Brennan: Any decision of this court has ripples...
...consensus?or even promoting amity?among the nine jurists. Stories about bickering behind the bench have been surfacing regularly. Promoting harmony would not be easy for any Chief Justice now because of the court's delicate ideological balance. There are three consistent conservatives (Burger, Blackmun, Rehnquist), three liberals (Douglas, Brennan, Marshall) and three swing men who are often unpredictable (White, Stewart, Powell...