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...comma was approved by the subcommittee without dissent. Determined to avoid playing into Walter Mondale's hands by emphasizing the party's punctuation problems, Lewis tried to close ranks after the vote. Said he, through a brave smile: "I like commas...
...Fourth Amendment. Chief Justice Warren Burger, writing for a 5-to-4 majority, held that an inmate had no right to challenge cell searches. "The recognition of privacy rights for prisoners in their individual cells," Burger wrote, "simply cannot be reconciled with the concept of incarceration." In a dissent that he took the trouble to read aloud when the decision was handed down, Justice Stevens said, "To hold that a prisoner's possession of a letter from his wife, or a picture of his baby, has no protection against arbitrary or malicious perusal, seizure or destruction would...
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Writing in dissent, Justice Thurgood Marshall found this reasoning "difficult to take seriously." Marshall stated that Rehnquist seemed to be saying that incarceration in often dangerous juvenile jails is comparable to parental supervision at home. Marshall was concerned about the breadth of the New York law, which allows a family-court judge to hold a child in preventive detention no matter what his crime or prior record...
...universities yet there were still, a year after the Strike, enough officers to lead the ground troops into Cambodia. Nor did our protests put the war-makers in imminent peril. When the War finally stopped, those in control were faced not by a militant alliance of the forces of dissent, but rather by students and Panthers in considerable disarray...