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...been universally described as decent, funny, civil and fair, since he may be joining a court with a long history of pugilists, ideologues and misanthropes who have somehow made it past the U.S. Senate. Justice James Clark McReynolds, who served until 1941, was, in the words of historian David Garrow, a "drooling anti-Semite" who refused to speak with fellow Justices Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo or have his picture taken with them. Chief Justice Fred Moore Vinson was a glorified drinking buddy of President Harry Truman's whose sudden death was hailed by fellow Justice Felix Frankfurter...
...disability and other criteria. To Rehnquist's critics, the large number of overturned laws made it appear that he was practicing the same judicial activism for which conservatives attacked the Warren court. "This is not so much the court setting itself as the protector of the states," says David Garrow, a law professor at Emory University. "It's the court setting itself up as the regulator of Congress's legislative power." To which Rehnquist would say, "Exactly." That is precisely the job of the court if you think the power of the Federal Government has been growing beyond the boundaries...
...this," says O'Shea. Academics, and historians in particular, traditionally think of truth as their gospel and the classroom as their church. "Knowingly being dishonest in class is just as great an act of moral turpitude as being knowingly dishonest or inaccurate in your written work," says David Garrow, a Pulitzer prizewinning historian at Emory University...
...this," says O'Shea. Academics, and historians in particular, traditionally think of truth as their gospel and the classroom as their church. "Knowingly being dishonest in class is just as great an act of moral turpitude as being knowingly dishonest or inaccurate in your written work," says David Garrow, a Pulitzer prizewinning historian at Emory University...
...there's another, more practical impetus to form a coalition opposing Ashcroft, says Garrow. "Groups like NARAL that receive a large amount of funding from direct-mail campaigns need to fly their battle flags over these confirmation hearings in a highly visible way. So a lot of what we're seeing in terms of protest is driven by the budgetary needs of these organizations." In fact, says Garrow, these interest groups may be missing the point altogether. "People should be asking who the Bush Cabinet appointees are planning to name as under secretaries, for health, or evaluation, or population." That...