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...ground that it violated the First Amendment's protection of free speech, the Supreme Court last week threw out a law Congress subsequently passed to circumvent that ruling. The 5-to-4 vote was the same as before: conservative Reagan appointees Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy joined William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun in ruling that even offensive forms of political expression -- in fact, especially those offensive forms -- were what the Constitution was designed to protect. "Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered," Brennan wrote for the majority...
...sponsor a chess club, a scuba diving club, or a French club -- without having formal classes in those subjects -- you must also open your doors to every religious, political, or social organization, no matter how controversial or distasteful its views may be? I think not." Even Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, who concurred with the majority ruling, expressed serious reservations. In order to preserve the separation of church and state and counteract peer pressures, the pair insisted, schools must "make clear that their recognition of a religious club does not reflect their endorsement of the views of the club...
...across its traditional ideological lines, the court held in a 5-4 decision that the National Labor Relations Board does not have to assume that workers hired as strikebreakers are opposed to union representation. That makes it easier for a union to prove it has majority support. Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote the opinion, joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Brennan, White and Stevens. "Replacements may in some circumstances desire union representation despite their willingness to cross the picket line," wrote Marshall. The likely impact: employers who hire replacements for striking workers will find it more difficult to oust...
Pledging AOA is an intense process. During the pledge period, the Sphinxmen study and are tested on Alpha history. With such illustrious members as Martin Luther King, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois, Jesse Owens, football hall of famers Gene Upshaw and Art Shell, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, New York Mayor David Dinkins, Rep. William Gray III (D--Pa.), Assistant Professor of Neurology and Harvard Foundation director Allen Counter and Senior Admissions Officer David Evans, AOA is a rich and diverse organization. As any Alpha man will tell you, Alpha history is Black history...
Currently clerking for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Brewer will join the Harvard faculty in 1991 after working as a clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court this summer...