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...aside from historical justification, Rex Lee, the solicitor general of the U.S., pointed out to the Court that if federal recognition of Christmas--an important Christian holiday--is reconcilable with the Establishment Clause, then the religious symbols attached to the holiday must also be constitutional. Moreover, Lee argued that lower court decisions opposing Nativity scenes were tantamount to "cultural censorship," discriminating on the content of speech...
...like someone had hit me over the head with an iron pipe," said one defense attorney, Theo Mitchell. "The sentence shocked everyone in the courtroom-the clerk, the solicitor, the sheriff, even the victim." As for Defendants Roscoe James Brown, 27, Mark Vaughn, 21, and Michael Braxton, 19, "they really didn't understand the import at first," said Glenn W. Thomason, another defense lawyer. "They thought he meant sterilization. I explained that he meant cutting their testicles off. That put them in a state of shock, to put it mildly." Nevertheless, the three are so terrified of a long...
...City Solicitor Russell B. Highley said his investigators would look into the matter this morning...
Reform is cyclical, Cox says; public interest advances then abandons it. Without public interest--or without public knowledge-- "The standards have a way of sagging." That Saturday night in 1973, Richard Nixon feared a chain of resignations in his Justice Department before somebody in the succession would fire Cox. Solicitor General Robert Bork agreed to do it; today, Yale Law School Professor Bork is widely named as Ronald Reagan's top choice for the next opening on the Supreme Court. What does Cox think about that...
...another public hearing the council passed a proposal by Duehay instructing the city solicitor to investigate the legality of a rooming house located on 151-3 Mt. Aubum St. The council will await the report before deciding how to deal with that specific place and with what residents call an extreme proliferation of rooming houses in the Cambridgeport area...