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...Justices Brennan and Marshall are determined not to give Reagan that opportunity. "They will have to be carried out," says a former Brennan clerk, who adds that both of the old liberals are in reasonably good health. Powell, 78, and Blackmun, 77, are said to be a bit weary, yet neither has given any indication that he is ready to retire. Some court watchers say the elderly Justices are afraid the next Reagan appointee will have Scalia's ideological bent without his judicial skills and acumen. Though A.E.I.'s Fein contends that the Justices should be reassured that the White...
...high court may offer Reagan a back-door means of achieving the New Right social agenda-- including permitting prayer in schools and banning abortion--that elected politicians in Congress have so far rebuffed. Time, certainly, is on the conservatives' side: the leading liberals on the court, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, are respectively 80 and 77 years old. Rehnquist is 61 and Scalia...
...opinion can set the terms of the debate. Burger repeatedly irked his colleagues by changing his vote to remain in the majority, and by rewarding his friends with choice assignments and punishing his foes with dreary ones. "Rehnquist is too intellectually honest to do this," says a former Brennan clerk. For Rehnquist the real question is whether he can be flexible enough to win over less dogmatic conservatives...
...court's Solomonic compromise in the famed 1978 affirmativeaction case Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke. Justice John Paul Stevens is a thoroughly unpredictable maverick, and Justice Harry Blackmun, once derided as Burger's "Minnesota Twin," is now often allied with the court's liberal duo, Brennan and Marshall...
...approved, Scalia would join two other Harvard Law School graduates on the Court, Associate Justices Harry A. Blackmun '29 and William J. Brennan Jr., who graduated from the law school in '32 and '31, respectively. William H. Rehnquist, Reagan's nominee to replace Burger as Chief Justice, received a Masters degree from Harvard...