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...Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Named to the Court in 1993 by Bill Clinton, Ginsburg replaced Byron White. Ginsburg is well known for her commitment to striking down laws that treat men and women differently; Clinton called her "the Thurgood Marshall of gender equity law." She shares Justice Breyer's conviction that law should serve the individual. Most likely to side with Justices Souter, Stevens and Breyer...
...Clarence Thomas: Appointed by George Bush in 1991, Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall in the closest confirmation vote in over a century (52-48). Since then, Thomas has earned a reputation as a conservative, in part for his very narrow reading of individual rights under the Constitution. He opposes affirmative action and Roe v. Wade, supports limited power for the Supreme Court and opposes the view that the Constitution is designed "to address all of the ills in our society." Thomas sides most often with Justice Scalia, concurring with the more senior judge almost 90 percent of the time...
DIED. KENNETH CLARK, 90, educational psychologist whose tiny, simply designed study of the emotional effects of segregation on black children was cited by Thurgood Marshall in Brown v. Board of Education, the case that led to the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in 1954 that "separate but equal" schooling was unconstitutional; in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. In 1951, at a segregated school in South Carolina, Clark asked 16 African-American children ages 6 to 9 to compare life-size dolls that differed only in skin color; one had white skin, the other brown. The wrenching results reflected the childrens' painful...
...Before Harlem There Was U Street walking tour gives you a peek inside (the theater's been restored and again hosts performances), as well as offering stops at two of Duke Ellington's childhood homes, the African American Civil War Memorial (the museum is down the block) and the Thurgood Marshall Center--a building that was the nation's first YMCA for blacks and Langston Hughes' home during the '20s. The tour costs $10 and meets the first and third Saturdays of the month at the U Street/ Cardozo Metro station at 13th and U streets...
...Justice William O. Douglas. Brennan has never relinquished the role. A dedicated pragmatist, the onetime New Jersey labor lawyer now uses his negotiating skills to bring the shifting middle of the court--Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell and Byron White--closer to the liberal corner that he shares with Thurgood Marshall and often John Paul Stevens. A hesitating colleague is likely to be asked, "Would you be happier if the standard were phrased this way?" If, as often happens, he is seeking Powell's fifth vote, recalls a former court staffer, he will "have the clerk working on the opinion keep...