Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current nine members of the court, Chief Justice Warren Burger gets the harshest treatment, as indeed he does in The Brethren, where he is depicted as a vain, posturing maneuverer who manipulates the court's rules to help him get his way. But others get drubbings too. Thurgood Marshall, for example, is criticized for weakness, even though he had been an ideological ally of Douglas...