Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unconstitutional. As a result, the National Conservative Political Action Committee spent almost $10 million in 1984 on pro-Reagan activities, and other ostensibly independent groups spent nearly $5 1/2 million more. Walter Mondale, by contrast, had less than $1 million spent on his behalf by independent PACs. In his dissent, Justice Byron White argued that the independence of the ideological PACs is mainly a charade, a view shared by Democratic leaders and others...
...West European antimissile movement, which the Soviets have fervently encouraged, staged small, mostly discreet demonstrations across the street from the Soviet mission; a handful of Americans joined them. Dissent was far more evident in Belgium, which has been debating whether to deploy U.S. cruise missiles. To ensure that the basing plan went ahead, Kampelman, Tower and Glitman lobbied Prime Minister Wilfried Martens during a day trip to Brussels on Monday. On Friday, Martens announced Belgium would proceed because an accord on limiting INF missiles would be "impossible in the short term"; hours later, the first cruises arrived in the country...
...lone dissenter, Justice William Rehnquist, criticized the decision as "too broad," giving poor defendants what amounts to a new "defense advocate." An indigent may be entitled "to an independent psychiatric evaluation," wrote Rehnquist, but "not to a defense consultant." Kamisar found Rehnquist's dissent "the surprising thing about this case. He could have concurred but said the right should be limited to capital cases or to cases when a showing of psychiatric need has been made. But he dissented instead." Chided Kamisar: "He's determined to show he's the Clint Eastwood of the Supreme Court...
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...soon regain control. "The majority thinking in this case is doomed," says Velvel. Indeed, in a surprisingly candid judicial version of "the South will rise again," Justice William Rehnquist, author of the 1976 decision, last week wrote tersely, "I do not think it incumbent on those of us in dissent to spell out further the fine points of a principle that will, I am confident, in time again command the support of a majority of this court...