Word: breyers
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...Justices Ginsberg, Souter and Stevens dissented, citing previous rulings enforcing the strict separation of church and state. Justice Breyer, who generally joins Ginsberg, Souter and Stevens in opposition to the majority?s more conservative rulings, abandoned his usual post and cast his lot with Justices Scalia, Thomas, O?Connor, Kennedy and Rehnquist...
Whatever the moral value of the clubs, there may be legal merit to their case. During oral arguments, the Supreme Court Justices seemed to sympathize with the club. Justice Stephen Breyer, considered a liberal, told the lawyer for the Milford school: "[It] sounds to me as if you are discriminating in free-speech terms against religion." If the Good News Club prevails, more clubs will undoubtedly pop up in still more schools. If it fails, clubs will probably have to withdraw from schools where they now meet, having pushed the mission a step...
...noteworthy characteristic of Tuesday's ruling struck Bloom immediately. "What's particularly interesting about today's decision is that it was written by David Souter, one of the Justices who usually rules in favor of individual rights," says Bloom. Souter's customary cohorts, Justices Ginsburg, Stevens and Breyer, were joined by Justice O'Connor in the dissent...
...wrote in the Court's strongly worded opinion, "unambiguously bars cost considerations" from the establishment of air standards, "and thus ends the matter for us as well as the EPA." The opinion, as it goes on, leaves little doubt as to the intensity of the Court's convictions. Justices Breyer, Stevens, Souter and Thomas each concurred with the opinion, adding their own sharp language...
...Sure, men have been called up on these sorts of charges - Cabinet appointees Ron Brown and Federico Pena and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer all faced similar accusations over the past 10 years - but not one of their eventual appointments was derailed by what was variously portrayed as delinquency or plain old carelessness. Meanwhile, Bush's EPA chief-designate, Christine Todd Whitman, narrowly escaped hired-help disaster during her 1993 gubernatorial run when it turned out her opponent had also hired an illegal worker, thus balancing the scales of wrongdoing...