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Margaret Marshall, formerly Harvard's General Counsel, is awaiting confirmation as the chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). A liberal jurist nominated by a Republican governor, Marshall has wide respect and should be confirmed. But now, just as when she was originally nominated as an associate, she is embroiled in controversy...
Also recently, she withstood a challenge when Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernard Francis Law '53 wrote a private letter to Governor A. Paul Cellucci, expressing his concerns that she might have an anti-Catholic bias. Law was concerned because during her time as Harvard's General Counsel, Marshall reprimanded a Catholic professor at the law school for expressing anti-abortion views on Harvard letterhead...
Marshall has also come under fire for some of her actions as Harvard's General Counsel. When some University guards filed complaints against Harvard, she picked her own former law firm to handle the investigation. Her subsequent report found that the University was not guilty of misconduct; but in 1997, a jury found that the racial discrimination that one guard had complained of led to his dismissal in 1993. Admittedly, Marshall showed poor judgement in selecting her former law firm to handle the investigation, but in this case, no permanent harm seems to have been done. It is also noteworthy...
...controversy over Marshall's conduct as Harvard General Counsel comes at a time when her nomination is already hotly contested...
...last week, Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernard Francis Law '53 wrote in a private letter to Cellucci that he fears Marshall may hold anti-Catholic views. As Harvard's General Counsel, she admonished a Catholic professor at the law school for using Harvard stationary to voice anti-abortion sentiments...