Word: thurgood
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...been everything from a longshoreman to a film director and has played everyone from Thurgood Marshall to Simon of Cyrene, so SIDNEY POITIER's new role shouldn't be that much of a stretch. The actor has been named the Bahamian ambassador to Japan. Poitier has dual American-Bahamian citizenship (his parents were Bahamian tomato farmers who sold their produce in Florida, where he was born). The job does not come with an embassy in Tokyo, and Poitier will practice his diplomacy from the comfort of his own home. But he did pay a visit to Emperor Akihito to present...
DIED. LOUIS MARTIN, 84, influential presidential confidante responsible for bringing black and minority concerns into the corridors of power; in Orange, California. Dubbed "the godfather of black politics," he helped clinch black votes for Kennedy in 1960; persuade Johnson to appoint Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court; advise Carter on minority affairs; and propel the career of Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan...
Americans often celebrate Black History Month by honoring famous civil-rights leaders like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall...
...Rehnquist argued that such cases have never merited federal relief unless "an independent constitutional violation" has occurred. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor added that the innocence standard must be "extraordinarily high" so federal courts won't be "deluged with frivolous claims." As early as 1986, the late Justice Thurgood Marshall complained that this trend left death-row petitioners in "an increasingly pernicious vise grip...
Such insulting language has become Scalia's signature style. It does not win friends or influence jurists--except perhaps to move them off the fence into alignment against him. Georgetown University law professor Mark Tushnet, who has studied the personal papers of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, says Scalia "annoyed everybody at one time or another...They'd get over it and say, 'That's just how Nino is,' and then he'd do something else. It has to have left some residue of unwillingness to accommodate...