Word: connorism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact of discrimination in American life is not in itself a constitutionally sufficient reason for resorting to an affirmative-action remedy. "It is a terrific opinion in our judgment," said Justice Department Spokesman Terry Eastland. But after reviewing the splintered opinions, most experts agreed with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. She concluded that the Justices have "forged a degree of unanimity" on a key rebuff to a much bruited claim of the Reagan Administration. It has argued that affirmative action is appropriate only to remedy discrimination against specific individual victims. By O'Connor's reading, however, the court is prepared...
...Most had already been rehired, but they may now press for back pay. The layoff plan had been necessary, the Jackson board of education had contended, to assure enough minority role models for its minority students. Lewis Powell, joined by Chief Justice Warren Burger and William Rehnquist plus O'Connor, disagreed. In their view, a minority preference plan could have been justified only by a showing of prior discrimination in the hiring of teachers within the district. "This court never has held that societal discrimination alone is sufficient to justify a racial classification," Powell said. Insisting as well that...
...force he did confront was New York's Archbishop, John Cardinal O'Connor. Cuomo, his wife and youngest son Christopher were watching O'Connor in a television interview in 1984. Cuomo was disturbed when O'Connor asserted, "I do not see how a Catholic in good conscience could vote for a candidate who explicitly supported abortion." When O'Connor was asked whether he thought Cuomo should be excommunicated for supporting the right to abortion, he hedged his answer. The Governor was determined to reply. His resolve was further strengthened by O'Connor's subsequent attack on Cuomo's Queens Democratic...
...Cuomo argued, should not impose his personal and religious opposition to abortion on those he governs. "To assure our freedom," Cuomo said, "we must allow others the same freedom, even if it occasionally produces conduct which we would hold to be sinful." The speech further estranged Cuomo and O'Connor. Today their relationship is one of mutual wariness...
...cited by ARM: a 1980 letter read from 410 pulpits in Boston implicitly urging congregations not to elect Barney Frank a Congressman; a 1980 editorial in a Catholic newspaper in San Antonio (headline: TO THE IRS --NUTS!!!) that praised Ronald Reagan for his antiabortion stand; and John Cardinal O'Connor's public disputes with Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Geraldine Ferraro over her stand on abortion. Beil contends that many such statements stem from a 1975 church master plan for pro-life activities; the church has refused to turn over background documents on this to the court...