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...Judge Ricardo Hinojosa was asked, in a promotion to the federal appeals bench? Hinojosa declined but allowed that he would accept an ambassadorship instead. Dumbfounded, his caller noted that the President might have more in mind for his old Texas friend. Hinojosa didn't take the hint. Thus when Thurgood Marshall retired, Bush apparently didn't feel he could name the Brownsville judge as the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court. "If I were him," says a senior White House official, "I'd be kicking myself right...
...Thurgood Marshall was the only member of the Supreme Court who knew how it felt to be called a nigger. In the 1940s and '50s when he roamed the courtrooms of the South as chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Marshall suffered all the indignities of segregation. He once told a judge in North Carolina he had eaten the same meal in the same restaurant where the judge had dined the night before -- with one difference. "You had yours in the dining room," said Marshall. "I had mine in the kitchen...
...Thurgood Marshall did his best to outlast the Republican Presidents he frequently calls "those bastards." But his 83rd birthday was approaching, his health was so poor that he said he was "coming apart," and there was not much hope that a liberal Democrat would recapture the White House and name his successor. Last week Marshall, the only African American ever to serve as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, gave up the seat he had held since...
...conservatives strictly limited to those five votes. Byron White is likely to join them on some cases, often those involving criminal law and police powers. Even John Paul Stevens supports them on many free-speech issues. That leaves Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun, both 82, the oldest members of the court, as its only unbudging liberals. "The swing Justices no longer control the outcome," says Duke University law professor Walter Dellinger. "There's no swing Justice, really...
...bitter dissent, Justice Thurgood Marshall pointed out that there was no comparable rule against frivolous appeals by fee-paying litigants. Wrote Marshall: "This court once had a great tradition: 'All men and women are entitled to their day in court.' That guarantee has now been conditioned on monetary worth...