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The importance of the stakes, however, was underscored by the extraordinary vehemence of some of the dissenting opinions. In the abortion case, Justice Thurgood Marshall asserted that the majority ruling would drive many women "to back-alley butchers." Justice Potter Stewart chose to dramatize his dissent in the contracting-quotas...
Justices Marshall, Stevens, William Brennan and Harry Blackmun wrote four separate dissenting opinions. But all agreed that the court majority was permitting Congress to deny poor women the constitutional right to an abortion, which the court itself had said all women possess. The Government, said Stevens, must govern impartially. He...
Potentially more important even than the trial issue is the court's assertion of a First Amendment right by the press to gather as well as to publish information. "This is a watershed case," said Stevens. "Today. . . for the first time, the court unequivocally holds that an arbitrary interference...
Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield vowed to use every stalling technique the Senate's quaint rules would permit. At 3:30 a.m. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens read monotonously from a lengthy Senate committee report. At 4 a.m. Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker worked himself into a spirited and largely irrelevant plea...
If Stevens has charisma, he also has an unusual outside sponsor in Michael Oliver, 51, an American real estate developer, coin dealer and fervent antiCommunist. In the mid-'70s, as the leader of a group called the Phoenix Foundation, Oliver tried-and failed-to build a Utopian, tax-free...