Word: thurgood
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...high court may offer Reagan a back-door means of achieving the New Right social agenda-- including permitting prayer in schools and banning abortion--that elected politicians in Congress have so far rebuffed. Time, certainly, is on the conservatives' side: the leading liberals on the court, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, are respectively 80 and 77 years old. Rehnquist is 61 and Scalia...
...that indicted him. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that he must be charged and tried again or set free. It was a decision that saw such ordinarily conservative Justices as Sandra Day O'Connor and Byron White joining such liberals as William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. The state argued that although blacks should not have been intentionally excluded from the judge-selected Kings County grand jury, it was "a harmless error." But Justice Marshall responded for the majority that overturning the conviction was "the only effective remedy for this violation" and was "not disproportionate...
Because of the prosecutor's remarks, the U.S. Supreme Court last week vacated that sentence by a 5-to-3 vote. The jury's decision in a capital case is indeed an "awesome responsibility," wrote Justice Thurgood Marshall for the majority, and no prosecutor has the right to denigrate it. Appellate courts, he added, rarely second-guess a jury's sentence, and for prosecutors to suggest otherwise poses "an intolerable danger that the jury will in fact choose to minimize the importance of its role...
...Justice Warren Burger, 77, has made clear his intention to preside over the U.S. Constitution's bicentennial celebration in 1987. Harry Blackmun, 76, keeps up an active schedule of public appearances and shows no sign that he is thinking about quitting. Court watchers have been noting for years that Thurgood Marshall, 76, is in poor physical shape, but he has remarked privately, "I was appointed for life and intend to serve out my term." William Brennan, who will be 79 in April, is the oldest of the Justices, but remains spry mentally and physically. Remarried in 1983, the Eisenhower appointee...
...manhood out of them, & the shame is ours, not theirs; & we should pay for it." Like Huck, Clemens remained true to his word on important matters: he paid for McGuinn's board until his 1887 graduation. McGuinn went on to become a mentor and idol of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall...