Word: thurgood
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...Homer Thornberry). Talk was also revived that Johnson would like to be the first President to appoint a woman or a Negro to the court, thus might well settle on either Federal Judge Sarah Hughes, who administered the presidential oath of office to him in Dallas, or Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall...
Brooke has never rallied his race to challenge segregation barriers with the inspirational fervor of a Martin Luther King. Unlike Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins or Philip Randolph, he has not been a standard-bearer in the civil rights movement. He has made none of the volatile public breakthroughs to equality of a Jackie Robinson or a James Meredith. He has triggered none of the frustrated fury of a Stokely Carmichael, written none of the rancorous tracts of a James Baldwin or a LeRoi Jones, drawn none of the huzzahs of a Louis Armstrong or a Joe Louis, a Willie Mays...
...cooperation among the eight judges. Led by Chief Judge Levin, who is Jewish, the court is a diverse group that includes four Roman Catholics, two Protestants and a Unitarian Universalist-Judge Wade McCree Jr., a Negro whom many consider to be the most likely of his race, after Thurgood Marshall, to reach the Supreme Court. If he does, he will take with him some exceptional experience in the art of keeping cases moving. So efficient is the Eastern Michigan court that the backlog on its docket is just about the smallest of any major federal district court...
Since the Redmonds were definitely not repeaters, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall asked the Supreme Court to reverse their convictions "in the interests of justice." Last week the court assented in a brief, unsigned order. In a curt note, Justices Potter Stewart, Hugo Black and William O. Douglas added that they "would reverse this conviction, not because it violates the policy of the Justice Department, but because it violates the Constitution...
...Freeman Leverett admitted that he was "ashamed" of the South's history of voter discrimination, adding: "But Congress cannot, in order to appease a mob in the streets, invoke unconstitutional means to achieve a constitutional end." Meanwhile, Defendant Katzenbach, who had been accompanied to court by Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall and Assistant Attorney General John Doar, sat quietly awaiting his turn...