Word: thurgood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brought an appeal before the Supreme Court. McCleskey, who had been sentenced to death in the killing of a white police officer in 1978, argued that sentencing patterns in Georgia proved racial bias. The court fractured 5-4 against McCleskey, even though Antonin Scalia conceded, in a note to Thurgood Marshall, that prosecutorial and jury decisions are influenced by "the unconscious operation of irrational sympathies and antipathies, including racial." McCleskey was executed in September...
...misrepresented herself as a quiet woman, impelled by a sense of duty to keep an unworthy designate off the nation's highest court. She was instead, he claims, a rabid ideologue and the pawn of influential left-wing groups who felt that Clarence Thomas' conservatism rendered him unworthy of Thurgood Marshall's mantle...
...speech opened with a story about an old man paying tribute to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall as a person who "didn't just witness change, he caused...
Private papers of late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall were made public, offering a singular glimpse of behind-the-scenes maneuvering over court decisions on abortion and homosexual rights. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, speaking for a majority of the Justices, denounced the Library of Congress for making the material available, claiming it damages the court's "long tradition of confidentiality." But Librarian James Billington said he was simply carrying out Marshall's wishes...
...point is that Powell is not just a famous Black leader. He is a "first," just like Thurgood Marshall or Jackie Robinson or Phyllis Wheatley. He is not important for what he represents simply to Black Americans but what he represents to all Americans...