Sunday, September 04, 2005

Rehnquist

From today's New York Times Obit:

"HE also spoke publicly against a proposed local law barring racial discrimination in public accommodations and against an integreation plan for the Phoenix schools. He campaigned in 1964 for the conservative Republican Presidential nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona."


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"In 1953, he married Natalie Cornell, a fellow Stanford graduate who was then working in Washington for the Central Intelligence Agency."


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"A memo that clerk Rehnquiest wrote for justice JAckson in 1952 on the school desegregation cases then before the court, including Brown v. Board of Education, came back to haunt his own Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
Entitled 'A Random Thought on the Segregation Cases,' the memo argued that the attack on school segregation should b rejected and the separate-but-equal doctrine the court had endorsed in the notorious Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 'was right and should be re-affirmed.'
'I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by my 'liberal' colleagues,' Mr. Rehnquist wrote to Justice Jackson. He also wrote that 'in the long run it is the majority who will determine what the constitutional rights of the minority are.'"


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"He was the only dissenter in a high-profile 1983 case, Bob Jones University v. United States, in which the court upheld the refusal of the Internal Revenue Service to grant tax-exempt status to a private university with racially discriminatory policies for student behavior - a ban on interracial dating or marriage."


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"A 1979 majority opinion, Bell v. Wolfish, held that it did not violate the Constitution for prison officials to place two prisoners in a cell designed for one. There is not "some sort of one-man, one-cell principle lurking in the due process clause," Justice Rehnquist wrote."




Allow us at history is a weapon to be among the first to say: Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish! (Hell Burns A Little Hotter Tonight)

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