Word: breyers
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...picking her; though he won it quite handily, Michigan is still a swing state, and Granholm would please unions, one of several groups Obama will have to contend with on his left. Labor and some civil rights groups have long complained that some Clinton appointees, especially Justice Stephen Breyer, are too centrist on business or national security issues, and they will pressure Obama for a reliably liberal voice...
...Professor Peter J. Gomes followed the introduction of the event with a prayer and James B. Onstad ’09 sang “America the Beautiful.” Onstad also performed “Fair Harvard” later in the ceremony.Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, a former Harvard Law School professor who served as chief counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee when Kennedy was chair, spoke about what he had learned working for the Massachusetts senator. Breyer described Kennedy’s strong commitments to bipartisanship and helping others...
...Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who served as chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary under then-chairman Kennedy, is scheduled to also speak about the senator. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and Harvard students will perform musical selections. University President Drew G. Faust will also address the Sanders Theatre crowd...
Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who served as chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary under then-chairman Kennedy, is scheduled to speak about the senator at the Sanders Theatre ceremony. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and Harvard students will perform musical selections. University President Drew G. Faust will also speak...
...founder of the Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC), a left-leaning legal think tank that watches Supreme Court decisions and advocates public-interest law. He points out that with the Court frequently deadlocked between more conservative voices (like Antonin Scalia and John Roberts) and more liberal ones (like Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg), the next President has the power to appoint a new Justice who will tilt the Court. Perennially debated matters, like abortion rights, could be at stake, along with new hot-button issues such as the rights of prisoners held at Guantánamo. What's less well...