Word: brennans
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Writing the lead opinion, however, Justice William Brennan maintained that the Alabama troopers' discrimination was "pervasive, systematic and obstinate." That pattern, he said, "created a profound need and a firm justification for the race-conscious relief." In the past the court has looked with favor only on affirmative-action plans that minimize penalties to the innocent, but the harm to white officers in this case, wrote Brennan, was limited to the time necessary to achieve the integration goal and so "only postpones the promotions of qualified whites...
...majority coalition cut across ideological lines. Sandra Day O'Connor, a Reagan appointee and the court's only woman, joined the liberal Marshall in his opinion, as did William Brennan, Harry Blackmun and (with a minor exception) John Paul Stevens. Antonin Scalia, a philosophical conservative who is Reagan's only other appointee to the bench, wrote a separate opinion that agreed with the outcome but on narrower grounds...
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...
...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...