Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan is re-elected and the court loses either of its two aging liberals, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, the conservative drift could become a sea change. The right to abortion, affirmative action for blacks and women, the ban on school prayer, many procedural safeguards for criminal suspects and free-speech rights would be vulnerable to weakening, if not outright reversal. Says University of Minnesota Law School Associate Professor Daniel Farber: "We could basically end up with the law looking a lot like it did before 1954. We could expect a much more conservative court, a Warren Court...
...hottest church-state issue turns on a landmark 1962 decision, Engel vs. Vitale, in which the Supreme Court prohibited organized prayer in public schools as a violation of the First Amendment ban on "establishing" a state religion. Since then, Fundamentalists have agitated for a constitutional amendment permitting school prayer, and many local schools have simply ignored the court ban. Now many experts believe the Justices will look for a compromise. They will have an opportunity this term when they consider the constitutionality of an Alabama law that
...permits a moment of silence each school day for "meditation or voluntary prayer...
President Reagan is wrong to address abortion, school prayer and a nuclear freeze as religious issues. They are social questions affecting everyone and require government intervention...
...knelt down, said a prayer, thanked God, and said, 'I'm tired as hell," he said after the game...