Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These were no mere dry technicalities, and the atmosphere in the marbled courtroom was unusually expectant during last week's 2½ hours of oral argument as the Justices peppered the lawyers with more than 100 questions. "I am sorry to detain you," said courtly Justice Lewis Powell Jr...
Technically, the court's vote was unanimous: 8 to 0 (the newest Justice, John Paul Stevens, did not participate in the decision). Actually, it was anything but. In a case involving nine major questions and 19 subquestions of constitutional law, there were five partial dissents. Nonetheless, the court under...
"The food wasn't too hot, the bar was poorly manned, and the lights were too high so everyone's wrinkles showed," complained Washington Post Reporter Sally Quinn, 34, describing last week's fund-raising gala at Washington's Kennedy Center. Held to salute the Center...
Although the nine Justices issued nine separate opinions in the court's 1972 decision, the overall vote to suspend the death penalty was 5 to 4. Since then, 34 states have passed new laws trying to meet the various objections raised by the Justices. That in itself seems to...
Among its most important members: Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Attorney General Edward Levi, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz (though he only studied at Chicago for a summer en route to a doctorate from Purdue), Solicitor General Robert H. Bork, Presidential Adviser Robert Goldwin and Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin...