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...lucky Warren Burgers that the Chief Justice resigned when he did. Would a Judiciary Committee headed by Teddy Kennedy or Joe Biden have approved the nomination of William Rehnquist to the top spot on the top court? Maybe. Probably. But Dan Manion, for one, wouldn't have stood a prayer...
...from Congress except to protect the gains achieved largely in the first year, which is a much easier task to accomplish than policy initiation. He has the smallest domestic legislative agenda of any President in the post-war era, and whatever rhetoric he has committed to social issues like prayer in the schools and the prohibition of abortions, they have never been serious interests of the Administration. Second, the advent of a Democratic majority in the Senate has the ironic effect in some areas of replacing moderate Republican committee chairmen with more conservative Democrats, such as on the Finance...
...parties to a suit are bound by a court decision, which implied that no one else was. "What makes the law effective is voluntary compliance," says the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's Barry Goldstein. "What if every school district in the country decided to have school prayer and every single case had to be litigated?" Could legislators simply ignore court rulings when drawing up new laws and regulations? Taken to its logical extreme, Meese's view seemed to some to promise legal anarchy. Ohio Democratic Senator Howard Metzenbaum, a Meese foe on the Senate Judiciary Committee, accused...
...most extraordinary features of the trial is that the presiding judge, W. Brevard Hand, has previously made his sympathies clear. Nearly four years ago, in a case that gave birth to this one, Hand challenged several landmark Supreme Court decisions with a ruling that not only authorized school prayer in Alabama schools but also stated that the First Amendment did not apply to the states in such cases. Although an appeals court reversed Hand's decision, he provided grounds for restructuring the issue so that the original plaintiff, Lawyer Ishmael Jaffree, was replaced by the 624 Evangelicals and the central...
They are Harvard's little-heralded subs, the so-called "demo squad" or "scout team." The demos are the low men on the depth chart, the third-and fourth-stringers who practice every afternoon with hardly a prayer that they'll play at week...