Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Melendez's report also tried to draw a line between what constitutes free expression of dissent at public events and what is an "attempt to snuff out the right of the speaker to speak and the right of the audience to be in he said...
...being so, Rehnquist continued, the factory workers "could have had no reasonable fear that they would be detained" if they refused to answer the questions of the INS agents or chose to leave the factory while the raids were going on. William Brennan, joined by Thurgood Marshall, wrote in dissent that the decision had a "studied air of unreality," since the INS raids were "of sufficient size and force to overbear the will of any reasonable person...
...public, everybody voted. President Reagan doesn't work that way. The President essentially said to Congress. "Even if you disagree with one it's your duty to vote with me on foreign policy." Afterwards National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane suggested that members of Congress should relieve their tingling of dissent by writing letters to the President, not voting against him. Democracy is just too money for these people...