Word: thurgood
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...third, less Machiavellian theory might hold the key. Kennedy may indeed have disparaged Roe three years ago, before Clarence Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall. But faced with the possibility that Roe might really be overturned -- and the social tumult that would ensue -- he instinctively pulled back from the brink...
...Wilkins was law clerk to SupremeCourt Justice Thurgood Marshall. Subsequently hewas an associate at the Washington trial law firmof Nussbaum, Owen and Webster, specializing incivil litigation...
According to Tudor, the list also included Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan; former Justice Thurgood Marshall; and University of Oklahoma professor Anita Hill, who last fall charged that Supreme court Justice Clarence Thomas, then a nominee for the Court, had sexually harassed...
Contrast Bush's refusal to state the obvious with the pride Lyndon Johnson expressed when he nominated Thurgood Marshall in 1967: "I believe it is the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place." By all accounts, Bush understands and appreciates the moral rightness of having a black on the Supreme Court and undoubtedly would have liked to echo Johnson. Had he done so, he would have immeasurably aided the national discussion of race. But politics trumped morality. The President's opposition to quotas, repeated over the years, constrained him from...
...matter of race, let us not forget Thurgood Marshall, who would not have had a seat to vacate for Thomas had the nation not sought to address fundamental racial problems by attending to the movement for racial justice in America, which culminated in his nomination to the court...