Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Justice Thurgood Marshall: You are talking about your client's rights. Don't these underprivileged people have some rights...
...Justice Thurgood Marshall and others who advocate abortion rather than letting a child live in poverty should realize that it is better to have lived poor than never to have lived...
...Justice Thurgood Marshall aptly pointed out in his stinging dissent, the court's ruling will have far greater impact on non-white communities than on white ones. Nearly one-third of the women who received Medicaid funds for abortions in the past were minority group members, a disproportionately high share. Marshall's frank summary of the court's decision is understandably harsh...
...Departing from Chief Justice Warren Burger, his "Minnesota twin," Blackmun roundly scolded his colleagues: "There is another world 'out there,' the existence of which the court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow." Justice Thurgood Marshall charged that the court's decision would "brutally coerce poor women to bear children," and said that he was "appalled at the ethical bankruptcy of those who preach a 'right to life' that means a bare existence in utter misery for so many." Justice William Brennan...
Last week, in a 7 to 2 decision, the Supreme Court sidestepped the constitutional problems in the case, but it dealt what dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall called "a fatal blow" to most of the means of enforcing the Civil Rights Act in religious cases. The majority decision, written by Byron White, said that many employees had "strong but perhaps nonreligious reasons for not working on weekends," and that the law cannot be construed to "require an employer to discriminate against some employees in order to enable others to observe their Sabbath." White said there was no objection to employers...