Word: connorism
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...intense liberal activism under Chief Justice Earl Warren in the '60s, the court drifted under Chief Justice Warren Burger in the '70s, neither truly liberal nor conservative but divided and unpredictable. Decisions often turned on one vote. But since the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor by President Reagan in 1981, many experts have begun to discern a rightward tilt. "There is a trend, but it is a slow oozing, a step-by-step process, and not a leap," says University of Chicago Law School Professor Philip Kurland. Agrees A.E. Dick Howard, a professor...
...Connor is a likely vote against abortion The staunchest defenders of the decision-Brennan, Marshall and Blackmun-are all at least 75 years old. "All of our guys are the old men," says Nanette Falkenberg, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League. The court, it would appear, is already primed for a switch; a single appointment might be all the shove that it needs. But even for a determinedly conservative court, reversing Roe would be a momentous step. Since so many women have relied on the decision, says Columbia's Blasi, to overturn it "would be Prohibition...
...Connor's direction sustains many of the qualities of MacLaverty's novel. An unintrusive presentation of characters and story, and a lack of bias, bring us to a similar proximity with the events. Occasionally, the abrupt switches of scene and brief flashbacks draw attention to themselves to a distracting extent. Time and the pattern of events are, perhaps inevitably, more satisfactorily handled in the novel. The music and photography complement the action seamlessly...
Traditionally, a Supreme Court justice each year heads the three-judge panel which evaluates students' presentations. Last year, Harry A. Blackmun '29 served as chief justice at Austin Hall, and Sandra Day O'Connor sat on the bench...
That transgression is not the only source of the current church-state battle. Archbishop John J. O'Connor of New York tested his side of the frontier when he declared, "I don't see how a Catholic in good conscience can vote for a candidate who explicitly supports abortion." At which point Governor Mario Cuomo of New York, a Catholic, took the unusual and politically courageous step of challenging the Archbishop. (Last week Cuomo followed up with a thoughtful meditation, delivered at Notre Dame, on the tension between religious and public morality...