Word: connorism
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...receiving the Team Player Award. “Here’s a guy that played on the team for four years, has a great work ethic. Everybody was really happy to see him win.”Despite losing the two seniors, Harvard retains freshmen Antonio Grillo and Connor Wentzell along with Pollak and sophomores Louis Amira and Timmy Wu. Juniors Danny Mayer, Nick Moseley, and Peter Singh will also return supporting Shuman. Next season, Mayer will assume the role of team captain, and together the squad will try to build off what it managed this season and improve...
...speech at the University of California, Berkeley, Sotomayor aired the view that judges' gender and ethnic backgrounds inevitably affect their decision-making and probably should. She said then, "Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement ... I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life...
...speech at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, Sotomayor aired the view that a judge's gender and ethnic background inevitably affect his or her decision-making, and probably should. She said then, "Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement ... I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male...
...long before it became obvious that he couldn't be counted on to solidify an ever emerging but never quite stable conservative majority anchored at the time by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, and often supported by the more moderate William Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor...
...introduction at trial of a coerced confession was a "harmless error" that shouldn't automatically result in the overturning of a guilty verdict on appeal. But the next year he outraged anti-abortion forces in a pivotal case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Souter joined with Kennedy and O'Connor in a joint opinion that upheld the "essential holding" of Roe v. Wade. Though in the same decision the three justices approved most provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, a law that put limits on abortion rights, they had ensured the survival for years to come of the basic right...