Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THURGOOD MARSHALL...
...weeks ago, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall objected to some of the pietism attending the 200th anniversary of the Constitution. Speaking to a lawyers' group in Hawaii, Marshall said the document had been "defective from the start." The fact that Marshall is the great-grandson of a slave sharpened his point...
...Movies for mature adults: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). And finally, in 1969, movies for immature adults: porno went public. That same year the Supreme Court recognized that entertainment -- home entertainment, at least -- was not legally required to please the bland majority palate. In Stanley v. Georgia, Thurgood Marshall declared, "If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch...
...this republic are legion, including those of not only Reagan but now Gary Hart, who wanted Reagan's job. And this week we can add a lot of names from the Navy, caught up in the tragedy of the Stark. Nothing seems immune. When Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall knocked the sacred 200-year-old U.S. Constitution, the argument took on a life of its own and still echoes through the city...
Justices William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens dissented, calling the study proof of impermissible lingering racism in American justice. "Race casts a large shadow on the capital sentencing process," wrote Brennan. The dissenters questioned why statistical evidence, acceptable for attacking discrimination in employment or jury selection, was not acceptable in this case. They also charged that the majority was driven by other than judicial concerns -- a fear of disrupting the implementation of the criminal-justice system in Georgia and elsewhere...