Word: breyers
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...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 with the senator, citing Kennedy’s strong commitments to bipartisanship and helping others...
...proud to be here as Harvard says, ‘Well done, senator, and thank you for caring about so many, so much, for so long,” Breyer said...
...substantial risk of putting an innocent man to death clearly provides an adequate justification," wrote Justice John Paul Stevens, in an opinion joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. "Simply put, the case is sufficiently 'exceptional' to warrant utilization of this Court's" power to intervene from on high. The court ordered a federal district judge in Georgia to examine all the conflicting evidence in the case and determine whether Davis is, in fact, innocent...
...court reversed a decision written by Sotomayor that said individuals have the right to sue a corporation working on behalf of the Federal Government for violations of their constitutional rights. But that was a narrow, 5-4 reversal in which the court's four most consistent liberals - Souter, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul Stevens - all supported her reasoning...
...That same year, in Lee v. Weisman, Souter joined the 5-4 majority that disallowed a prayer at a public high school graduation. And as the '90s wore on and Bill Clinton's court nominees Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer came on board, Souter was increasingly inclined to join with them and John Paul Stevens to form the court's liberal wing...