Word: brennans
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...Little, apparently, came from the several Justices with whom Woodward and Armstrong talked. Even so, the critics note, the narrative is stippled with much detail about the Justices' inner motives and feelings: Potter Stewart's stomach is said to "knot" before a meeting with President Nixon; William Brennan "felt betrayed" at one point; Burger, who never spoke to the authors, "vowed to himself that he would grasp the reins of power immediately." Complains University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland, a longtime court watcher: "We're just told by the authors that...
...story the critics have cited concerns a 1972 decision, Moore vs. Illinois, that denied a new trial to a man who faced a life sentence for murdering a bartender in a tavern quarrel. As the book tells it, Brennan favored a retrial but decided to join in the majority opinion. Reason: Brennan was concerned that Harry Blackmun, who wrote the opinion, would be "personally offended" if he dissented and thus might not support him in other cases. New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis decided to probe this account of cynical legal horse-trading, which the book suggested was based...
...Freestyle--1. Brennan (P) 11:27.30; 2. Ewing...
...yard breaststroke: 1.Chris Hotarek (BC), 33.02; 2. Karen Chen (H), 33.07; 3. Colleen Brennan (BC), 33.55; 4. Terri Sullivan (BU), 33.75; 5.Laura Keiso (NU), 34.24; 6. Brenda Kay (Tufts...
...been a hodge-podge of fairly feeble arguments--from "utterly without redeeming social value" to the more recent "community standards" test--it is obvious that pornography has always been what the individual Supreme Court justices decide it is. It is little more than embarassing, then, to reveal that Justice Brennan cast his vote using the "limp dick standard" or that "for White, no erections and no insertions equaled no obscenity." The Post's crosstown rival, The Washington Star, has long boasted of its breathless gossip column, The Ear. Woodward and Armstrong supply some strong hardbound competition in parts of their...