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...executed in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reauthorized capital punishment in 1976. One need not ignore the savagery of his crimes--prosecutors said Clay stood by while a friend murdered a father and his two kids on Christmas Eve 1993, 11 days before Clay himself butchered a store clerk--to pause at his execution...
...concept of service. Rail freight still only moves around Europe today at an average of 18 km/h; even George Stephenson managed to go faster on some stretches of his maiden run 178 years ago. And passengers sometimes don't do much better. Linda Bienge, a 39-year-old clerk in Berlin's criminal court, was traveling back to the German capital from Dresden one evening recently when her train came to a standstill for almost two hours. "I was fuming," she says. It took the conductors 45 minutes to apologize for the delay. But they never explained what caused...
...signal achievement of the Warren court was its unanimous ruling in 1954's Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. During Rehnquist's Senate confirmation proceedings in 1971, it emerged that in the early 1950s, while he was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, Rehnquist had prepared a memo defending the old and reviled "separate but equal" doctrine. Rehnquist insisted that he had merely been distilling Jackson's views. But the court he eventually led made job-discrimination claims harder to win and rejected the use of statistics showing that the death penalty...
Rehnquist always knew where he wanted the court to go. But in recent years it may have become less important to him how the court got there. Even as far back as the late 1980s, a conservative clerk heard him say at lunch, "I used to worry about every little footnote. Now I realize you just need five votes." There's probably no decision where the marshaling of five votes--rather than the legal reasoning behind them--was more critical than the case of Bush v. Gore. At the end of five tense postelection weeks, the court issued an unsigned...
From the time he was a law clerk, Rehnquist has advocated limiting the ability of state prisoners to argue in federal court that their convictions violated the Constitution. Rehnquist's views have now become the law, and the once "Great Writ" of habeas corpus--the right of the accused to be released from unlawful detention--has been gutted and is rarely available to state prisoners. This year, in a case I argued and lost 5 to 4 in the Supreme Court, Rehnquist was in the majority in holding that habeas corpus relief was not available to a state prisoner...