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Ever since Chief Justice Earl Warren retired from the U.S. Supreme Court 16 years ago, American conservatives have been waiting for wholesale reversals of the Warren era's liberal precedents. But despite six Republican presidential appointees to the high bench since then, the turnaround has not materialized. One of the most powerful forces holding back the conservative tide has been a small, slightly rumpled, elderly gentleman with a ready smile and a legendary gift for gab, William J. Brennan Jr. Court observers agree that the liberal Justice, even in the supposed exile of dissent, has emerged as the master strategist...
...very own walking encyclopedia. Whatever information you needed-whether it was pointers on an arcane aspect of TIME style, the current status of some attempted coup or the latest piece of office news-Penny knew. And she would happily tell you, too, over a steaming cup of organic Earl Grey tea and a chocolate biscuit...
...very own walking encyclopedia. Whatever information you needed - whether it was pointers on an arcane aspect of TIME style, the current status of some attempted coup or the latest scrap of office gossip - Penny knew. And she would happily tell you, too, over a steaming cup of organic Earl Grey tea and a chocolate biscuit. In Hong Kong, where Penny was an associate editor with TIME 's Asian edition before taking on the same role for the European edition in London, she was known as "Moneypenny," after the indefatigable assistant in the James Bond series. The nickname reflected not only...
...IMPORTANT IS IT, GIVEN THE SUPREME COURT'S CURRENT MAKEUP, TO HAVE A CHIEF JUSTICE WHO CAN REACH ACROSS IDEOLOGICAL DIVIDES AND BUILD CONSENSUS? I think that's very important, but Chief Justices have come from remarkably strange places. Nobody would have predicted that Earl Warren would have been able to do that on Brown v. Board of Education. When President Nixon tapped Warren Burger to be Chief Justice, he was a relatively unknown circuit judge and did very, very well...
...majority opinion this time around. Why did Kennedy change his mind? Legal tradition invites him to do so. Since 1958 the court has applied a flexible standard to interpreting the Eighth Amendment's ban on "cruel and unusual punishments." What we mean by the phrase, wrote then Chief Justice Earl Warren in Trop v. Dulles, depends on "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society...