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...Virginia: "The 1984 Burger Court may be the conservative counterpart of the 1962 Warren Court-the year it turned the corner. A swing to the right has been in the works for a decade, but the momentum has quickened in the most recent term." Even several of the Brethren acknowledge the shift. Last month Justice Harry Blackmun told a private gathering at the Cosmos Club in Washington, B.C., that...
...fundamental rights. If the court becomes a mere political instrument, it will lose its legitimacy; if the Justices become the blunt tools of the Presidents who appoint them their judgments will be just as transitory It is reassuring that, once ensconced in the high court, so many of the Brethren develop a higher loyalty. - By Evan Thomas...
...like you walk into a room and four of them are laughing together about a baseball game," says a former law clerk for Brennan. "They walk to conference arm in arm, but during the week they don't pal around together." Justice Lewis Powell calls the Brethren "nine one-man law firms." Says Blackmun: "There is very little humor...
Aside from a weekly Friday conference, the Brethren usually communicate in writing. Memos ("letters," in quaint court jargon) are exchanged, as the Justices probe one another for the parameters of a decision. The final opinions are longer and more heavily footnoted than in the past...
...rights. Stevens bitterly accused his colleagues of violating "any civilized standard of decency." Such frankness has not won him friends among the Brethren Says a former Burger clerk: "The Justices may squabble among themselves, but they don't go telling the neighbors...