Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justice Thurgood Marshall, who is married to a Hawaiian, exempted himself from the case...
Harvard in the 1950s was a place where students could go to Sanders Theater and listen to a serious debate on the merits of desegregation. Arguing for the negative, a visiting journalist from the Winston-Salem Journal insisted, "Advancement for the Negro can best come gradually." His opponent, Thurgood Marshall, went on to prove him wrong in the year of my father's graduation, successfully arguing before the Supreme Court on behalf of a Topeka schoolgirl named Linda Brown...
...Clark praised publicizing the issues unequivocally. On Jesse Jackson, Clark remarked, "obviously a Black who does not know his place; he has been very effective in projecting civil rights into a new arena." A theorist by trade, he praised Thurgood Marshall's dictum quoting that judge as saying "'We must use racism to combat racism.' If white children are considered more important than Black children by their communities, [we should] expose them to the real world, to the real community...
Critics of the decision, including dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall, favored a more detailed and demanding set of requirements. University of Southern California Law Professor William Genego, who heads an American Bar Association lawyer-competency committee, thinks that the court is letting "defendants pay for the mistakes their lawyers make." His committee will suggest some stiffer, nonbinding guidelines for attorneys at least to consider. Law Professor Gary Goodpaster of the University of California at Davis worries about applying the new rules to the two stages of death-penalty cases. "Many attorneys are capable of attacking the state's case...
...question them. That being so, Rehnquist continued, the factory workers "could have had no reasonable fear that they would be detained" if they refused to answer the questions of the INS agents or chose to leave the factory while the raids were going on. William Brennan, joined by Thurgood Marshall, wrote in dissent that the decision had a "studied air of unreality," since the INS raids were "of sufficient size and force to overbear the will of any reasonable person...