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Brooklyn-born Alvin Singleton, 53, also comfortably bridges the gap between European and black forms, though many of his pieces explore black themes. His orchestral composition Even Tomorrow, for example, is an homage to Thurgood Marshall, but the music itself is strictly formal in style...
After graduating from Harvard Law, Jackson clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Jon O. Newman and then for late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall...
...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...
...room." Yet Thomas has uttered not one inquiry from the bench this term, preferring to rock silently back and forth in his chair. While some critics see that as diffidence, others note that silence has always been proper behavior during oral arguments. Among those who practiced magisterial quietude: Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan...
...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...