Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absence of pomp. In the court's conference room, before the President and Nancy Reagan, her fellow Brethren, retiring Justice Potter Stewart, and her sons, O'Connor placed her right hand on two O'Connor family Bibles held by her husband John. She repeated the judicial oath to "do equal right to the poor and to the rich...
...Justice (1801 -1835) who introduced the principle of judicial review of executive and legislative acts, establishing the court's authority in the fledgling nation. The bailiff cried the traditional "oyez, oyez," and the eight Justices stood silently behind the wooden bench. O'Connor then took a second oath ("I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States ..."), and a clerk of the court helped Justice O'Connor slip on a black robe over her lavender-colored dress. With a quick smile and a sure step, O'Connor took...
Meaning of an Oath...
...happens sometimes sooner and sometimes later. Franklin Roosevelt had no idea when he was taking his oath of office in 1933 that in a hundred days he would remake the U.S. Government. John Kennedy, enamored of foreign affairs, suddenly had the civil rights storm breaking around his head, and instead of Nikita Khrushchev he was trying to figure out Police Chief Bull Connor and his Birmingham dogs. Maybe Richard Nixon, the old Commie fighter, could see down the road three years to the day when he would be in Peking toasting his Chinese enemies and then in Moscow talking about...
Oklahoma had to clear another hurdle: the Hippocratic oath prohibits giving "deadly medicine." Last year the American Medical Association declared that a physician should not participate in executions. Dr. Armond Start, who supervises health care for Oklahoma's 5,000 inmates and was originally designated to insert the needle, took the same stance. That set off an acrimonious debate, highlighted by suggestions that Start resign. Finally the state concluded that the injections could be administered by non-doctors...