Word: dissention
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...leagues all their lives don't really appreciate what awaits them at the presidential level," says Michael Dukakis, who has more than a nodding acquaintance with the majors. As a nonprofessional, Perot recoiled when reality intruded, a petulant autocrat who apparently expected a grateful nation to crown him without dissent...
...alike in 56 out of 90 decisions, but Thomas can write in language that brings to mind Scalia's occasional let's-you-and-me-scrap tone. "Jurors do not leave their knowledge of the world behind when they enter a courtroom," Thomas scolded the other Justices in one dissent. "And they do not need to have the obvious spelled out in painstaking detail...
...means of eliminating jurors who might be biased against their clients, whether black or white. The court voted 7 to 2 to ban these so-called peremptory challenges on racial grounds. Citing a 1991 precedent, Thomas voted with the majority. But in an opinion that read more like a dissent, he wrote: "I am certain that black criminal defendants will rue the day that this court ventured down this road that inexorably will lead to the elimination of peremptory strikes . . . Today's decision, while protecting jurors, leaves defendants with less means of protecting themselves...
Steeling itself for further unrest, the government is preparing a new law restricting the right to strike. Similarly, dissent in a flamboyantly free press may be dampened by proposed criminal penalties for libel. "Gonzalez is following in the old regime's authoritarian tradition," charges editor Ramirez, whose paper has aggressively investigated corruption. The government has also taken heat for a new law that allows detention of anyone failing to carry identity papers and permits the search of private homes without warrants in cases of suspected drug dealing...
Attorney General William Barr called the landmark decision "an important victory . . . against terrorists and narcotraffickers." But Justice John Paul Stevens, who was joined in his dissent by Harry Blackmun and Sandra Day O'Connor, warned that "most courts throughout the civilized world will be deeply disturbed by the 'monstrous' decision the court announces today...