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...confirmed, Rehnquist and Powell will join the President's two other appointees, Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice Harry Blackmun. The Old liberal, activist Warren majority has now shrunk to three: Justices William Brennan Jr., 65: Thurgood Marshall, 63; and William O. Douglas, 73. Holding four seats, the conservative Nixon Justices will also be a minority, with the balance of power exercised in the middle by Potter Stewart, 56, and Byron White, 54. But the bench will have been heavily tipped to the right by the Nixon bloc. It is now virtually a Nixon Court...
Murray said she does not wish to be a token woman on the Supreme Court. "Just as Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall has a special insight into the racial experience, a woman justice would have native insight into the problems of women," she said...
...sheer frustration," Wilkins said in describing his 40 years with the N.A.A.C.P. "But optimism prevails. If I didn't believe it was possible for minority groups in this country to achieve equality by using the tools within the System, I would have given up long ago." Said Toastmaster Thurgood Marshall, the first black man to sit on the Supreme Court: "The world is a whole lot better for what you have done, so the only toast is just 'Thank you, Roy.' " . . . It was "roll 'em" time on the Young Winston set at Swansea, and the place...
...become fully effective, the black judges feel that they must not only enlarge their numbers, but also get high bench appointments. Aside from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and a handful of appellate court jurists, blacks generally operate at the lowest level-the local small-claims and police courts. In Atlanta, they agreed to a man that their most pressing future business was to lobby for more blacks on the federal bench. Representatives of the new Judicial Council hope to meet with President Nixon soon to take up the problem. They have a strong argument: none of the President...
Troublesome Standard? With some pain, Burger conceded that the "line of [church-state] separation, far from being a 'wall,' is a blurred, indistinct and variable barrier." His reasoning was too blurred for Justices William O. Douglas, Hugo Black, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, who dissented in the college-aid decision. None of them could see why Government support of secular services should be more entangling in schools than colleges. All thought that the court should have banned aid to colleges too; Justice Byron White, the lone supporter of school-level aid, argued that if colleges meet the Allen...