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The message was clear: under new management, the Catskill Mountains could go far. But Comedian Mal Z. Lawrence, who has often played the G, was not buying. "If Jennie were here, she'd cry," he decided. His colleague Mac Robbins, a fast man with a one-liner, was playing it...
Ideology, Reynolds thus implies, is the proper--in fact the only--standard by which justices should be evaluated. By refusing to abandon more than 20 years of consistent judicial reasoning and a rights-based approach to the Constitution in order to jump on the Reagan bandwagon, Brennan utterly fails to...
Reynolds' rhetoric shows how profoundly the Administration misunderstands--or wishes to subvert--the nature and function of the judiciary. Reagan and team are playing games with the Constitution and mocking the court. The real goal, Reynolds has now told us virtually point blank, is not communion with the ideas of...
The substance of Reynold's speech is shallow and easily refuted. But the precedent which Reynolds sets is far more frightening. Supreme Court Justices are not ordinarily the subjects of personal attacks. Merely by singling out and attacking an individual Justice, Reynolds reveals his contempt for judicial independence.
And when the executive branch starts to treat the Court as just another political institution and its Justices as mere politicians, we're in for a real power grab. Don't be fooled. The Reagan-Meese-Reynolds crew is trying to weaken the judiciary and to limit the scope of...