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...people," Washington had taken seven years to issue him a green card -- and still would not honor his request for citizenship and a passport. Moreover, payment of his reward money had been stalled after Rashid's murder conviction in 1992, then again a year later when the verdict was upheld. Now, finally, a check for $750,000 was going to be placed in his hands. But he had given up hoping for the presidential handshake he had been promised long...
This rigid adherence to an allencompassing guarantee of "free speech" is unwise, and debases the very principle of tolerance upheld in our Constitution. Americans should not be afraid to establish that some speech--because of its advocacy of hatred, intolerance, or violence against a particular group of people--is illegitimate and undeserving of legal protection...
...Senate committee promptly demanded the tapes, Nixon refused, claiming Executive privilege. The new Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, had appointed Harvard law professor Archibald Cox as a special prosecutor on the whole case, and Cox sent a subpoena for tapes he wanted to hear. Nixon refused him too. Judge Sirica upheld Cox's demand, so Nixon resisted him in the U.S. Court of Appeals, which backed Sirica...
Blackmun began as a Justice who blithely upheld a $50 fee for poor people filing for bankruptcy, since all it took was giving up movies and cigarettes for a week. But as in baseball, where he passionately rooted for the hapless Chicago Cubs along with his hometown Minnesota Twins, he came to defend the underdogs in life: blacks, women, gays, aliens, Native Americans. By 1977, in a dissent from the majority's denial of funds for Medicaid abortions, he was aware of " 'another world' out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears...
Mumbling something about an alternative interpretation of the constitution, Gabay decided that every question brought before the council must have its own list of signatures from one-tenth of undergraduates. This decision was later supported by a five to one vote of council executives and will most likely be upheld by a simple majority of the full council in a vote this Sunday...