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...civil rights, environmental protections, and gun control—are ultra-conservative and equally disturbing.In Chittister v. Department of Community and Economic Development, Alito ruled that the federal government could not force state governments to comply with the Family and Medical Leave Act. Even Rhenquist was opposed to that position, and the Supreme Court overturned Alito’s opinion.On civil rights, Alito’s dissents in two other cases show that he would impose almost impossible evidentiary burdens on plaintiffs in race and sex discrimination cases. He also wrote an opinion in which he found it permissible...
...wives are responsible for initiating conversations in a natural way. After all, a first-year Congressman from Nebraska cannot just go up to Chief Justice Rhenquist and introduce himself. If his wife admires Mrs. Rhenquist's necklace, however, she has an excuse for an introduction. The men can pretend that they are just passing time until their wives are finished...
...last minute, the Supreme Court sanctioned the judicial shortcut by voting 6-3 not to stay the execution Conservative Justice William H. Rhenquist had long sought a way to speed up the pace of state executions; he now found help from the newest justice, Sandra Day O'Connor. Justices Marshall, Brennan and Stevens protested the decision: "The court of appeals...still has not acted on the merits of the [Brooks] appeal...
...violate the sense of the Constitution or Civil Rights Act of 1964--that is, to provide "equal protection under the law." The decision also rules unconstitutional the use of any racially-based quota system in an admissions process, in concordance with the opinions of Chief Justice Burger, and Justices Rhenquist, Stewart and Stevens...
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