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Thurgood Marshall was the only member of the Supreme Court who knew how it felt to be called a nigger. In the 1940s and '50s when he roamed the courtrooms of the South as chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Marshall suffered all the indignities of segregation. He once told a judge in North Carolina he had eaten the same meal in the same restaurant where the judge had dined the night before -- with one difference. "You had yours in the dining room," said Marshall. "I had mine in the kitchen...
...female nursing school in Mississippi could not refuse to enroll men, since a single-sex policy was not necessary to achieve an important educational goal. Citing the Mississippi case, Judge Kiser concluded that V.M.I.'s goals would be thwarted if women were admitted. His ruling, complained Ellen Vargyas, senior counsel for the National Women's Law Center, turns the 1982 precedent "upside down...
...future corporate flights in advance with both White House lawyers and bookkeepers. The President acted shortly before the Washington Post printed a story claiming that Sununu, his wife Nancy and an aide had personally solicited rides on jets owned by companies that do business with Washington. White House counsel C. Boyden Gray had blocked three such requests, but sources told the Post that an aide to Sununu had misinformed Gray about the identity of a fourth benefactor. In a statement on Saturday, Sununu admitted that "some mistakes were made...
...that struggle is being made even more difficult by the National Rifle Association. Last month the N.R.A.'s deputy general counsel, Robert Dowlut, charged that the C.H.A.'s gun ban infringes on residents' constitutional right to bear arms. The N.R.A. maintains that law-abiding residents need guns to protect themselves from criminals. Furthermore, it says, because most of Chicago's public-housing residents are black, a ban on guns would have a "disproportionate impact on persons of African heritage" -- a particularly offensive argument since virtually all the victims of project shootings are also black...
...fated Watergate break-in. They also detail many of the charges of obstruction of justice, perjury, tax evasion, wiretapping and destruction of evidence that landed some of Nixon's closest aides -- including Attorney General John Mitchell, chief of staff Bob Haldeman, White House adviser John Ehrlichman and counsel John Dean -- in jail...