Word: brennans
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...first time ever, that federal judges may set goals and timetables requiring employers guilty of past discrimination to hire or promote specific numbers of minorities, even if the jobs go to people who are not themselves the proven victims of bias. The rulings, written by Justice William Brennan, add up to a strong endorsement of affirmative action...
Harry Blackmun's passionate dissent (joined by William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens) asserted that "only the most willful - blindness could obscure" the connection between sexuality and the right to privacy. "No matter how uncomfortable a certain group may make the majority of this court," wrote Blackmun, that does not justify denying homosexuals the right to privacy. As for constitutional authority, the dissenters relied on the due-process clause and the Fourth Amendment's guarantee of "the right of the people to be secure in their persons (and) houses." Wrote Blackmun: "The right of an individual to conduct...
Justice William J. Brennan, in the court's majority opinion, said: "We hold that [federal law] does not prohibit a court from ordering, in appropriate circumstances, affirmative race-conscious relief as a remedy for past discrimination...
Writing for the court's 6-3 majority in the Cleveland case, Brennan said agreements between employers and minority groups may provide racial preferences even more extensive than a federal court would have awarded after a trial...
...today's rulings, Brennan was joined by Justices Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O'Connor...