Word: reynolds
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Ideology, Reynolds thus implies, is the proper--in fact the only--standard by which justices should be evaluated. By refusing to abandon more than 20 years of consistent judicial reasoning and a rights-based approach to the Constitution in order to jump on the Reagan bandwagon, Brennan utterly fails to meet the Reynold's test of judicial competence. If Brennan is a dangerous judge because of his generally liberal opinions, then only a committed conservative can save the country and the honorable Court...
...here lies the value of Reynold's speech. It confirms what we suspected all along--that Reagan could care less about the independence and integrity of the judiciary so long as it rules...
...substance of Reynold's speech is shallow and easily refuted. But the precedent which Reynolds sets is far more frightening. Supreme Court Justices are not ordinarily the subjects of personal attacks. Merely by singling out and attacking an individual Justice, Reynolds reveals his contempt for judicial independence...
...Reynold's defense lawyer hit the nail on the head when he said that the issue is "personal accountability for one's actions." The 14th Amendment defines corporations as legal persons, persons who are responsible for what they do. If cigarette companies were, in fact, deceptive or dishonest in marketing their products, then they ought to be held liable for the consequences of smoking cigarettes which they concealed from the public...
...defense, John L. Strauch, Reynold's lawyer, says that he will argue that the issue is not addiction, but "personal accountability for one's actions...