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Carter isn't the first lawyer to go over the wall into fiction, but he may be the most distinguished. A third-generation jurist, Carter clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in 1980, and he went on to become the first tenured black professor at Yale Law School. At 47, he is the author of seven books on such weighty matters as affirmative action and the relationship between law and religion. So what's he doing slumming with private eyes and crooked cops? "I wanted to write a novel from the time I was very small," Carter confesses. "Most...
...What? Sam Adams was never president? I guess next you’ll tell me that I can’t honor Justice Thurgood J. Icehouse on Supreme Court...
...more than it does the intended target, presumably Summers. The analogy suggests that Summers was rough and tough, yet it also suggests that African-Americans are fragile like china, that we should be handled with care, lest we break apart. Martin Luther King Jr. was not china, nor was Thurgood Marshall, Sojourner Truth and numerous other African-American heroes who faced many “bulls” in their quest for justice and never broke apart. As an African-American public official in western Massachusetts, I often face many “bulls” who are uneasy with...
...chief justice and senior associate justice sit at opposite ends of a rectangular conference table, and thus have unrestricted elbow room. Rehnquist also adds a human element to the workings of the Supreme Court: He and Justice Harry Blackmun shared geography trivia during dull moments on the bench, and Thurgood Marshall was the Court’s raconteur. Rehnquist also justifies the way the current procedure works. He effectively addresses concerns about the Court: that law clerks may wield too much influence, that the majority of cases petitioning for a hearing aren’t even discussed, or that cases...
...CLARENCE THOMAS APPOINTED BY George Bush (1991) Supporters say he is "the leading conservative in America"; liberals call him "the youngest, cruelest Justice." He owes his career to the elder Bush, who made him a judge in 1990 and 15 months later nominated him to replace Thurgood Marshall on the high court...