Word: warrens
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...Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz said the change of Roberts’ nomination from associate to chief justice would not make the confirmation more difficult...
...much fine material, put to such shoddy use. Like Woody Allen's Zelig, Heaven raids archives for vintage film clips; like Warren Beatty's Reds, it calls on witnesses to describe and argue about its theme. But both sources are compromised by the directorial sneer. Keaton rarely lets a remark or a film sequence run complete; instead she bends its intent to her skewed reading. The interviewees are photographed through cookie-cutout shadows, distracting the audience as well as the subjects. These are the techniques of a filmmaker short on trust, and the condescending tone rankles throughout. Sitting through Heaven...
...case, the next chief will work in Rehnquist's shadow for at least a decade, if not longer. Appointed by Richard Nixon in 1971 to replace John Marshall Harlan and selected by Ronald Reagan in 1986 to succeed Warren Burger as Chief Justice, Rehnquist sat on the court for 33 years. Only four other Justices had longer terms. Rehnquist continued the rightward march of the court begun during the Burger era and executed what legal scholars call a revolution in federalism, leading the court in a series of decisions that returned powers to the states that Congress had tried...
...Reagan Administration lawyer, he ardently opposed judicial meddling in divisive issues he thought were best left to lawmakers. He even wrote that Congress had the power to strip the Supreme Court of its right to hear cases that involved social issues like school prayer and abortion. When Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1983 complained of the court's heavy workload, Roberts wrote a sizzling memo, observing, "So long as the court views itself as ultimately responsible for governing all aspects of our society, it will, understandably, be overworked...
...Among liberals, a major defense of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion, is that if it is overturned the destabilizing effect will be great, denying women a legal right they have had for 32 years. But to many conservatives the matter has never been settled as the Warren Court's original recognition of a constitutional right to privacy (in a 1965 case involving the use of contraception) provided the basis for Roe. Strict constructionists like Antonin Scalia and Thomas think the court was just plucking rights out of thin air when it perceived the right to privacy nestled...