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...personal life in search of evidence to either calm their fears or justify their suspicions. Some wondered if the 50-year-old lifelong bachelor might be gay. (Friends assured them he is not.) Others speculated that Souter's streak of Yankee independence would make him a less than reliable vote for either side of the abortion issue. In a rambling television interview last week, Justice Thurgood Marshall, a last vestige of the high court's liberal wing, took the unusual step of sizing up in public a man who may soon sit alongside him on the bench. Harrumphed Marshall: "Never...
...these price fluctuations have any bearing on the November outcome? The same faculty group set up a market for the 1988 presidential race; the day before the election, prices indicated a preference for Bush shares by a margin of 7.6% -- almost exactly his edge in the nationwide popular vote...
...last three years, PETA members havebrought before Gillette's stockholders areferendum demanding that the company disclose thefacts surrounding its animal testing procedures.But Mockler successfully campaigned for thestockholders to vote "no" on the resolution allthree years, Kimber said...
Brennan, who sprinkled his off-bench conversations with profanity and wrote crisply clear opinions, had an unusually collegial approach to finding the often elusive fifth vote needed to support his views. He would sometimes dispatch his law clerks to find out from their fellows what points bothered other Justices about his position. Then, in early drafts, he would deftly tailor his arguments to overcome their objections. His sharply honed writing often carried...
Brennan never gave up, however, in fighting the death penalty, advocating affirmative action to correct racial wrongs and defending the one-man, one- vote principle to define state and local election districts. Yale Kamisar, a University of Michigan law professor, calls Brennan "one of the most effective Justices of all time. He could write with power and style, and he had enormous influence." Says Columbia law professor Vincent Blasi: "There have been great dissenters, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, and great leaders of court majorities, such as John Marshall. But Brennan was the only Justice in the court's history...