Word: warren
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...ended last week. With the abrupt resignation of Justice William Brennan, the court that Chief Justice Earl Warren led into an age of liberal judicial activism passed into history...
...k.p.h. (70 m.p.h.), are following an 11-day, 2,639-km (1,640-mile) course that began in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and will pass through eight states. The high-tech Soap Box Derby is scheduled to finish this week at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Mich., outside Detroit. (In case of extended rain, the race may be delayed.) According to the < contest's sponsors -- GM, the Department of Energy and the Society of Automotive Engineers -- the race is more than a vivid demonstration of what today's solar technology can do. They hope that it will also...
DICK TRACY. Forget the marketing campaign, which has blitzed everyone this side of Burkina Faso. Forget Warren Beatty's reputation as an indefatigable Don Juan. Just plunk down your money and enjoy a suave, splendid movie romance...
...perfectly clear, at least for me, that the death penalty is constitutional. The Fifth and 14th amendments only prevent the denial of life and liberty without due process of law. When Chief Justice Earl Warren was on this court, in an opinion called Trop v. Dulles, he recognized that capital punishment was not cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. But quite apart from what the Constitution may provide, if I were in a state legislature, I would vote against capital punishment. The U.S. is the only country among the Western democracies that still...
...president of the American Bar Association in 1965, you said the liberal Warren Court had swung the pendulum "too far in favor of" criminal rights. For at least a decade, the court has become far more conservative on criminal rights, and yet crime is still rampant. Were you wrong...