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...friend of Bill Clinton's, Klein stepped into the void left by the 1993 suicide of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster and helped the First Family navigate Whitewater turmoil. He steered the Supreme Court nominations of Ruth Bader Ginzburg and Stephen Breyer through Congress before joining Justice in 1995 as understudy to then antitrust chief Anne Bingaman...
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...predators," says Steven Shapiro, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "Who is it tomorrow that we're going to label as abnormal and potentially dangerous?" The dissenting Justices, however, agreed with Thomas that Kansas' criteria for committing someone were valid. Their objection, as expressed by Stephen Breyer in the minority opinion, was that Hendricks has received virtually no treatment even though the law requires it. To Breyer, the state's failure to live up to its promise makes Hendricks' confinement look a lot like punishment...
...constitutionally cognizable interest in controlling the circumstances of his or her imminent death." She left the question open, but advocates like Laurence Tribe, who argued the New York case, read her words as suggesting possible constitutional exceptions to state bans. Several of the remaining concurring Justices--Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens and David Souter--seemed still more receptive. Even Rehnquist, in a footnote, declined to "foreclose" consideration of a "more particularized challenge" by a suffering individual...