Word: warrens
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Ever since Chief Justice Earl Warren retired from the U.S. Supreme Court 16 years ago, American conservatives have been waiting for wholesale reversals of the Warren era's liberal precedents. But despite six Republican presidential appointees to the high bench since then, the turnaround has not materialized. One of the most powerful forces holding back the conservative tide has been a small, slightly rumpled, elderly gentleman with a ready smile and a legendary gift for gab, William J. Brennan Jr. Court observers agree that the liberal Justice, even in the supposed exile of dissent, has emerged as the master strategist...
Brennan plays these constitutional power games with an institutional advantage. At the court's regular Friday conference, as senior Justice, he addresses his colleagues concerning cases immediately after Chief Justice Warren Burger. Burger's presentations are said to be brief and sketchy, Brennan's long, detailed and thoughtful. "The conference may disagree," says one former clerk, "but it is in terms Brennan established." Further, when he is in the majority and the chief is not, his senior status gives him the right to name the author of the court's opinion. Rather than taking all important decisions for himself, Brennan...
...some court watchers, Brennan's latter-day accomplishments outshine his early years and will mark him in history as one of the high bench's great dissenters. While a member of the Warren court majority, he was guilty of writing some "slapdash" opinions, says Stanford's Gunther. "To my taste Brennan has been a hell of a lot better since he's had to articulate his views in dissent." In those opinions he generally answers the majority point by point and lays out a narrow interpretation of the ruling, which can be helpful to those who later challenge it. Justice...
...contaminated world, like Nevil Shute's 1957 best seller On the Beach. A book of drawings by atom bomb survivors, The Unforgettable Fire, had great public impact in 1982 when the first American edition appeared. At least one major poet recently turned his hand to this subject. Robert Penn Warren's New Dawn chronicles the Enola Gay's mission from the takeoff on Tinian, to the flight over the Aioi Bridge--"Color/ Of the world changes. It/ Changes like a dream." The poem ends with an account of the flyers' celebrations, and then after...
When a draft agreement containing these radical reforms was presented to the union's leaders in early July, they found it too much to swallow in one gulp. Peter Kelly, head of U.A.W. Local 160, in Warren, Mich., said that the plan "could lead to the demise of the U. A. W union movement as we know it." He complained that the proposal would destroy the seniority system, in which the best jobs go to workers with the longest service. Kelly pointed out that while job security would be guaranteed for 80% of Saturn's workers, the remaining 20% could...