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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...
...Rehnquist is looking for a model as consensus maker, he can find one in Brennan. Like Rehnquist, Brennan is popular with his colleagues. But unlike Rehnquist, Brennan has often swallowed his ideological scruples to pick up the votes of more moderate colleagues. His ability to preserve the legacy of the Warren Court on a bench well stocked with G.O.P. presidential appointees is testimony to his persuasiveness and collegiality...
...This court had a couple of Justices with vision," says University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar. "Brennan on the left and Rehnquist on the right. But nobody had the votes." As a result, the legacy of the Burger Court, insofar as it makes sense to speak of a Burger Court, lies mainly in the details. "It met the hard cases, decided the finer points and didn't push things along any further," says University of Texas Law Professor Scot Powe. For an era of rapid and thus often heated social change, that amounts to a respectable epitaph...