Word: jurists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoddy and poorly thought out. Of one Burger opinion dealing with court-ordered school busing in Detroit, Justice Lewis Powell is quoted as saying, "If an associate in my law firm had done this, I'd fire him." Fickle and unprincipled, the authors claim, Burger is a jurist who can write, a very liberal opinion on race discrimination, just so that his critics cannot easily pigeonhole him as a conservative. He is certainly no leader. "On ocean liners," Justice Potter Stewart reportedly told clerks at one point, "they used to have two captains. One for show, to take...
Along the way Cambridge produced its share of notables: botanist Louis Agassiz, jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, actor Walter Brennan, cartoonist Al Capp and camera mogul Edwin Land. "Even Josiah Bartlett, the man who wrote Bartlett's Quotations, lived here," Dickerson said...
Colleagues on both sides of the bench describe Judge Hufstedler as lively and vivacious, and an extremely able jurist. She turns out about 100 opinions a year, which are usually well written and well reasoned. Her decisions have been popular with liberals, civil rights leaders and women. She is considered a moderate to liberal Democrat, but she calls herself "independent minded." Says she: "I'm not a political creature...
...ranking Republican, former Segregationist Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. They were able to compromise, for example, on the testy question of whether nominees for federal judgeships should be required to resign from private clubs that discriminate against blacks. The problem arose over Carter's nomination of a Tennessee jurist, Bailey Brown, to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Brown had a strong pro-civil rights record as a district court judge, but he stubbornly refused to resign from the all-white University Club of Memphis. Thurmond and Kennedy worked out a compromise: Brown agreed to stop participating in club activities...
...readily apparent. More comprehensible are the roots of Boswell's reckless social life, specifically his Scots Calvinist origin with its severe strictures against wine and wenching. For Boswell, the embodiment of this authority was his father, the eighth Lord Auchinleck, a straitlaced, unaffectionate parent and a distinguished jurist who wore his courtroom robes around the house. The case history is not unfamiliar: son seeks the attention of the remote, puritanical father by challenging his values; one thing leads to another; guilt accrues; activities detrimental to health and welfare are pursued; the harmful consequences become a form of self-punishment...