Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chief speaks first, usually outlining the facts and issues in the case and expressing his tentative vote. The other Justices follow with their views in order of descending seniority. The outcome is now provisionally decided, and the majority opinion is assigned by the Chief or by the senior Justice in the majority. Then begins the writing process, for the majority and the dissenters. A Justice produces a draft, or reworks one from a law clerk, and circulates it to colleagues. Changes may be requested or offered to pick up or hold a vote. A coalition can come unraveled; a close...
...Blackmun's 1977 opinion that lawyers have a right to advertise, he could not resist twitting some in his profession...
...survive. Indeed, the framework of Roe v. Wade makes jurisprudence dependent on technological developments. If the moment of viability is pushed back much further toward conception, the state's right to limit abortions will gradually increase. The Roe decision, concluded Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in a 1983 opinion on an abortion-related case, is "on a collision course with itself...
...perceived by the public. That last Constitution, misquoted, rhapsodized over and construed to endorse the passions of the moment, is the subject of this imaginative book by a Pulitzer-prizewinning Cornell University historian, Michael Kammen. Kammen rummages through two centuries of sources, including news clippings, speeches, textbooks and public opinion polls, to gauge how Americans have regarded their own charter of government...
Sigur, meanwhile, was making the rounds on both government and opposition sides with carefully balanced advice. While it is doubtful he offered an opinion on anything so specific as the referendum issue, he did say the U.S. goal for South Korea is a "democratic and stable society and a freely elected government which enjoys the support of its people and respects its rights." That was at least an endorsement for constitutional reform, if not necessarily on the opposition's terms. On the matter of martial law, which the government has hinted it might invoke, Sigur was unequivocal. "Our position...