Word: brennans
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...share his constitutional philosophy, voting as a bloc in 53 out of 70 of the court's recent nine-man decisions. Nixon quite likely will be able to make more appointments in his next term: William O. Douglas is 74, Thurgood Marshall is in shaky health at 64, William Brennan, 66, has talked of retirement. A great need in the emerging Nixon court is for sharp intellects who can write good law; the court is short on intellectual conscience and independent scholarship...
...truth, the children of Northern Ireland are what one British colonel calls "the most depressing thing about this depressing place." "There is nothing to be done with them," says Mrs. David Brennan, "except get them out of here. When my three-year-old son came in from stoning soldiers, I knew we had to go." The Catholic Brennans are leaving and so are thousands of others. This emigration, unlike earlier ones, is made up of skilled workers and professional people, Protestant as well as Catholic, who are leaving because they see no future in Northern Ireland. "The people...
...argument against SALT I is that the Administration was so eager to reach some sort of arms agreement in Moscow that it might have unwittingly bargained away U.S. "strategic sufficiency"-Nixon's term for mutual deterrence. Writing in William F. Buckley Jr.'s National Review, Donald G. Brennan of the Hudson Institute argues bluntly that SALT I is "profoundly unwise," given the Soviet Union's lopsided numerical superiority in ICBMs...
Although the vote was officially 5-4, it was really closer than that. All nine Justices wrote opinions, and only two-Brennan and Marshall-declared that capital punishment per se is cruel and unusual. Douglas, White and Stewart all felt that the death sentences in the murder and two rape cases before the court had been applied "wantonly and freakishly," to use Stewart's words, because only a tiny minority of defendants convicted of similar offenses suffer the same fate. They left open the possibility, however, that a law would be constitutional if it called for capital punishment...
Even with such a winnowing, however, the decision means that large numbers of additional attorneys will now be needed to defend indigents. Where will all the lawyers come from? Douglas noted that "there are 18,000 new admissions to the bar each year." In a separate opinion, Justices Brennan, Douglas and Stewart suggested that law school students might assist indigent defendants under the supervision of a law professor or a practicing attorney...