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...that is exactly what they have done. By refusing to grant Jacobs' stay, our nation's highest court became complicit in a judicial homicide. Save for the dissent by Justices Stevens, Ginsburg and Breyer, the court prioritized procedure over good sense and let an innocent man be killed...
...Grants that have benefited millions of college students. Throughout the years, Kennedy has especially been a best friend of Harvard--frequently obtaining federal grant money for scientific research specifically at the College and the Medical School. Kennedy even helped persuade President Clinton to nominate Law School Lecturer Stephen G. Breyer to the Supreme Court. After Breyer was nominated, Kennedy ensured an easy confirmation process in the Senate...
Joined by new Justice Stephen Breyer, the U.S. Supreme Court began its 1994-95 term by facing a light -- though politically potent -- docket. Among the cases the high bench plans to decide in the months ahead: whether states can impose term limits on members of Congress, whether the federal child-pornography statute is constitutional, whether Congress has the power to ban guns from the vicinity of schools and what kinds of federal minority-preference programs are legal...
...president's ear and still holds important positions on two prominent Senate committees; he is the chair of the Labor and Human Resources committee and the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. This summer, he was instrumental in securing the confirmation of Law School lecturer Stephen G. Breyer to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...suspense: by an overwhelming vote of 87 to 9, the Senate confirmed President Clinton's selection of Boston federal appeals-court judge Stephen Breyer for the U.S. Supreme Court...