Word: byronism
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While the Supreme Court unanimously found that Clark should have ordered the local officials to raise taxes rather than doing so himself, the court split bitterly on the question of whether federal judges may intervene in matters of taxation. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White said that to deny judges that right "would fail to take account of the obligations of local governments . . . to fulfill the requirements that the Constitution imposes on them." But Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the dissent, acidly observed, "Today's casual embrace of taxation imposed by the unelected, life-tenured federal judiciary disregards fundamental...
...resolve the fiscal crisis at the state level, Prop 2 1/2 will be adjusted," says state Rep. Byron Rushing (D-Boston...
...credibility. But last week the Justices refused to permit such evidence to impeach the credibility of a witness testifying in support of a Chicago murder defendant. The ruling left some experts scratching their heads and anticipating future criminal cases because the fifth and deciding vote came from Justice Byron White, normally one of the staunchest judicial critics of the exclusionary rule...
...style in America, though it migrated to the movies in the 20th century. In the 19th, however, it was still firmly ensconced in painting, and at its zenith -- the 1850s and 1860s -- its star was Frederic Edwin Church, whose admirers compared him (for various reasons) with Lord Byron, Balboa and J.M.W. Turner. When Church showed a single landscape, Americans would turn out to see it in the kind of droves that require the pull of a whole retrospective today. In 1859 he made $3,000 in three weeks -- at 25 cents a ticket -- by displaying Heart of the Andes...
Civil rights advocates had given up hope that anyone would ever be punished for the murder of N.A.A.C.P. field secretary Medgar Evers, who was gunned down in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. Indicted in the killing was Byron de la Beckwith, a segregationist whose fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. But all- white juries twice failed to reach a verdict, and Beckwith went free...