Word: connorism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Justices William H. Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor voted to hear arguments in the case, but four votes are needed to grant such review...
Such concerns, though understandable, prevent the divestment movement from becoming just that--a movement. The civil rights protesters did not confine their concerns to specific states. If Bull Connor hosed protesters in Alabama, protesters in Mississippi did not keep quiet. Fighting for a cause meant supporting others involved in the same struggle. Each protester knew that he had more than justice on his side--in a real sense he had an entire movement of dedicated protesters prepared to support him and he would do anything to help any of them if that became necessary...
...conviction because blacks had been deliberately excluded from the grand jury that indicted him. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that he must be charged and tried again or set free. It was a decision that saw such ordinarily conservative Justices as Sandra Day O'Connor and Byron White joining such liberals as William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. The state argued that although blacks should not have been intentionally excluded from the judge-selected Kings County grand jury, it was "a harmless error." But Justice Marshall responded for the majority that overturning the conviction...
...cheaper for a little country with a lot of cash to steal some uranium than to build a plant to make it," O'Connor said...
...investigation, to be conducted by O'Connor, the Cambridge police and fire chiefs, was sparked by a report sent to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by Daniel Hirsch, an authority on research reactors at the University of California at Santa Cruz. The report stated that security for nuclear reactors must be improved substantially to protect such facilities from fuel-theft and sabotage...