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Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer and nine U.S. appeals court judges presided over a reconsideration of Dred Scott v. Sandford at Harvard Law School Saturday, determining that Scott would likely have had to remain a slave under 1850s law, but that the most significant parts of the Court’s opinion were completely erroneous...
...Breyer provided more speculation as to why Taney wrote such a broad, extreme opinion when a more modest one would have been legally stronger...
...alternative. However sincere the desire of the writers to protect the emotions of rape victims, their call is one we cannot heed. The world has yet to see the act of censorship that was not advanced as an attempt to conserve, defend, or uphold. To paraphrase Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the proper answer to posters you do not like is not fewer posters, it is more. Their article belies a further set of illiberal and unqualified assumptions in its blithe reduction of HRL’s campaign to an attack on rape victims. As an aside, it bears noting that...
...Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer paid a hushed visit to Harvard Law School yesterday, calling Bush v. Gore the “most stressful” case during his 12-year tenure and delivering a short address on the high court’s operations. Breyer’s speech to Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree’s criminal law class was kept secret from everyone, including Ogletree’s students, until minutes before it began. After a warm greeting from the first-year students, Breyer, a Law School graduate, delivered a relaxed talk about...
...Breyer, Roberts, and Scalia all seemed to be openly hostile to FAIR’s free-speech case yesterday—suggesting that they might be eager to shoot down FAIR’s constitutional claims. And, as the dean of George Mason Law School, Daniel D. Polsby, noted in a phone interview yesterday, Souter “was not particularly interested in the Dellinger [statutory] argument...