Word: potters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This past Saturday, retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart died at the age of 70. He was the other kind of public servant...
...lower right-hand part of its front page. The Times formated the Justice's biography by outlining his stands on many important Supreme Court decisions and mentioning a few well known quotes from his carreer. The Times story was both thorough and kind, but it did not say why Potter Stewart mattered...
...Potter Stewart mattered for his integrity. His famous opposition to pornography was not based on the moral posing to which we have become inured. He simply did not believe that the First Amendment covered pornography as part of the press. The eloquence and gaudy brilliance so common in academia and so respected on the bench were not among his attributes...
...Justice relied on the common sense conspicuously absent in a field flush with refined ideas and elegant people. During the Vietnam War, Potter Stewart--who was certainly no liberal--attempted to get the Court to rule the draft unconstitutional without a declaration...
...that matter America's predominantly male judiciary--supposed to know what is "sexually explicit" and what is not? If "sexually explicit" is a legal term, fine. But even Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was at a loss for defining prurient material. "I know it when I see it," he said in a famous ruling...