Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That dramatic show of loyalty immediately injected into the affair questions about the President's own judgment and his moral standing with the public. Carter had pledged to avoid even the appearance of impropriety among his appointees. Now he had opened himself to the charge that he was willing to bend his rigid rules to save a close friend...
...only seven of 2,000 witnesses have been killed-in each case because they refused to follow instructions from U.S. marshals. But Congress was not specifically informed until 1974 about the false-identity aspects of the scheme and thus never got to ask any questions about its legal or moral ramifications. One question suggested by Graham: "Should the Government officially adopt a program dedicated to telling lies?" Another, clearly, is how the courts should cope with the problem of $1,000 monthly payments and occasional $35,000 relocation bills for witnesses who are forbidden to accept "improper inducements" for their...
Finding new law Society occasionally has to be forced to treat people as equals. That is the basis of rights. So a judge should act imaginatively when he feels that a minority is threatened with moral and social prejudice. If a specific precedent is not available, the judge should ask whether a principle of justice inherent in the law as a whole covers the case...
Abortion funding Assuming the Supreme Court's 1973 decision on abortion was correct, the recent decision allowing cutoff of public funding is simply wrong. The state may consistently pay for an appendectomy while denying funds for cosmetic surgery, because that distinction does not involve any controversial moral views. But the supposed difference between an appendix removal and an abortion does depend on a moral position. The state has no business enforcing a moral judgment on a minority...
Obscenity Laws should not be founded on personal moral judgments. That is why liberals find themselves in court defending people they disapprove of. Pornographers are carriers of issues of principle, though they may lack principles themselves. Etiquette is a more acceptable basis for legislation than morality; "It's the wrong time and place" is acceptable, but "There's no place...