Word: breyers
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...Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer said yesterday American citizens must participate in government if they expect to realize the Constitution’s democratic intentions...
...seems rather contrary to an idea of a Constitution with three branches that the Executive would be free to do whatever they want, without a check." STEPHEN BREYER, Supreme Court Justice, during arguments on whether foreign detainees held at Guantanamo Bay should be allowed to challenge their detentions in U.S. courts...
...implications of the case have been called “breathtaking” by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. If the Supreme Court rules in Davey’s favor, scholarship law will change in as many as 36 other states. The law that pushed him into the suit has already been overturned in his home state, Washington...
...Corrections In the article on Chief Justice William Rehnquist [June 30], we incorrectly said that Justice Stephen Breyer's confirmation process was the first one after the 1991 battle over Clarence Thomas. The Justice next named after Thomas was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in 1993. Breyer was appointed...
...bloodletting, you could almost forget the foul mood that overtook the U.S. during the fights over Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Washington was so shell-shocked by the Thomas battle that people were intent on turning the next Supreme Court vacancy, in 1994, into a milder affair. And Stephen Breyer's confirmation process proved to be a breeze...