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Though all three co-authors of the majority decision were appointed either by Ronald Reagan (Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor) or by George Bush (David Souter), their decision proved that presidential efforts to give the high court a particular ideological tilt can be a very inexact science. In the past 12 years, Reagan and Bush sent five Justices to the Supreme Court, enough for a majority, and all were expected to vote against...
...from the tight-lipped precincts of the Supreme Court, it was being played in earnest last week in an attempt to figure out one of the court's most unexpected rulings in years. Someone cobbled together a Roe-friendly majority that included three conservatives -- Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter...
...margins in court history. As in the abortion ruling last week, he has linked up with the court's hard-line conservatives, , Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. These three have often combined with Byron White and three more moderate conservatives, Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter, thus giving the court a conservative majority in most important cases last term...
Religion has been an important part of the process. Thomas, a onetime Catholic seminarian, and his wife Virginia regularly attend Sunday services at Truro Episcopal Church in Fairfax, Va. Unlike the Scalias, and O'Connor and her husband, they are absent from the Washington social scene. Since he joined the court, Thomas has attended only two public events, a Horatio Alger Awards dinner and a state dinner at the White House. In May he canceled an appearance at New Jersey's Seton Hall law school after he was warned of a possible demonstration against him. Remembering her own embarrassment when...
Irish pop music is the art of the drone: the mournful monotone of Enya, U2 and Sinead O'Connor, singing elegies to the millennium. Now comes the Irish quartet CLANNAD (whose lead singer, Maire Brennan, is Enya's sister) and an album, Anam, that has all the right career moves: a duet with U2's Bono, a song from the hit movie Patriot Games. The group merits a listen. Brennan's soprano keenings, in English and Gaelic, are variously backed by cool, Sergio Mendes-style harmonies, a bluesy sax, and a guitar's banshee wailing. But in the tune Harry...