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...obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code." Despite this affirmation of Roe, the court permitted greater restrictions on abortion by the states. In a 7-to-2 vote, the three were joined by Justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Byron White (all of whom had scathingly dissented from the affirmation of Roe) in upholding provisions of Pennsylvania's law. Among them: a requirement that teenagers show the consent of one parent or a judge, and another that stipulates a 24-hour waiting period for a woman after hearing a presentation...
...clerk-did-it theory works this way: Rehnquist believed that Kennedy would join him, Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Byron White to produce a majority decision repudiating Roe. But while Rehnquist was writing what he thought would be a majority opinion along those lines, Kennedy was persuaded to switch by his clerk Dorf, perhaps with the collusion of Souter's clerk Rubin...
...Senate's lukewarm 52-48 confirmation vote -- one of the thinnest margins in court history. As in the abortion ruling last week, he has linked up with the court's hard-line conservatives, , Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. These three have often combined with Byron White and three more moderate conservatives, Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter, thus giving the court a conservative majority in most important cases last term...
...nine Justices agreed with Scalia's view that the ordinance ran afoul of the First Amendment. But four Justices -- O'Connor, Byron White, John Paul Stevens and Harry Blackmun -- took a different approach, attempting to find a way of accommodating so-called hate-crime laws that are drawn more narrowly. Left in doubt were hundreds of campus speech codes and bias-crime statutes throughout the country aimed at racist and sexist conduct...
...sums that up better than Antonio Canova (1757-1822)? Canova is not to modern taste, and probably never will be. When alive, he was the epitome of the neoclassical style, the most admired marble carver in Europe; connoisseurs shed tears of delight before his work. His Head of Helen, Byron wrote, showed "Above the works and thoughts of Man/ What nature could, but would not, do,/ And beauty and Canova...