Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reynolds v. Sims prompted a dissent that crystallized the criticism of Warren's approach to the court's role. Did the court have the right to impose electoral rules on state legislatures? Said Justice John Harlan: "This [majority] view, in a nutshell, is that every major social ill in this country can find its cure in some constitutional 'principle,' and that this court should 'take the lead' in promoting reform when other branches of government fail to act." Yale's Professor Alexander Bickel complained that the court "seems to lack a sense...
...dissent, Justice Byron White protested that the court was "chipping away" at a fundamental antimonopoly principle: two companies should not be allowed to merge when they could compete...
...uniquely good position to further détente. No one can challenge his devotion to the advancement of Russian interests. He was the one who ordered the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, demanded ideological purity in Eastern Europe with the "Brezhnev Doctrine," and started the current drive to repress dissent at home (see box page 26). "He is not making Khrushchev's mistake," says Carl Linden, a leading Soviet affairs expert at George Washington University. "Khrushchev tried to couple relaxation abroad with relaxation at home, while Brezhnev has kept the two separate. He realizes there is a fundamental antagonism between...
Acute Sensitivity. Kim's trial is a patently political attempt to muffle dissent. So is a second trial that began at week's end. This one involves 54 of the 253 people still under arrest since last April, when more than 2,000 university students attempted to stage a demonstration against the Park regime. Among the accused is 33-year-old Kim Chi Ha, South Korea's best-known poet, whose The Cry of the People-a 2,600-word broadside against repression, corruption and abuse of power-has deeply offended the government. Also on trial...
...dissent, William Douglas protested that a defendant's constitutional rights could not be brushed aside by such a weighing of competing interests. He pointed out that each of the Miranda warnings had been held "fundamental with respect to the Fifth Amendment privilege" against selfincrimination. The present court may not be willing to declare itself openly hostile to Miranda, but it clearly no longer considers the prescribed warnings as rock-hard fundamentals of American justice...