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...decision that brought home the importance of substituting Justice David Souter for the liberal William Brennan, the court ruled that the introduction of a coerced confession at trial may be considered a "harmless error." That undoes part of a 1967 decision in which the Justices ruled that when such confessions are introduced as evidence, any guilty verdict that follows must be reversed automatically on appeal. As a result of last week's decision, what was once taboo will henceforth be merely a technicality...
...fact, the Court judges pregnancy-related "rights" only once in this ruling. The majority opinion, signed by Justices O'Connor and Souter among others, veers surprisingly close to an implicit support of a woman's right to choose whether or not to bear a fetus to term...
...bias in Johnson Controls' policy is obvious," he wrote. "Fertile men, but not fertile women, are given a choice as to whether they wish to risk their reproductive health for a particular job." Blackmun was supported by Justices Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day O'Connor, John Paul Stevens and David Souter, who as the newest member of the court was weighing in with his first significant vote on a women's rights issue...
...unless they proclaim themselves vehemently, lesbians generally remain overlooked. While two men living together typically occasion comment, women living together don't. Simply being unmarried and of mature years can subject a man to scrutiny about his sexual preference -- it happened to David Souter after his nomination to the Supreme Court -- but an "old maid" more often faces just pity or condescension. Although most social scientists have rejected the view that homosexuality is far less common among women than men, the idea persists in the public at large. When homosexuals are discussed in the media, men are almost always...
...advanced concrete proposals from the planning to legislative stages. Honored for service in Vietnam, Kerry has made important contributions to peace in Central America through his work on the Foreign Relations Committee. Most recently, Kerry backed the 1990 Civil Rights Bill and opposed the nomination of Justice David H. Souter '61 on grounds of civil and women's rights...