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- From: dph1jg%tuda@newcastle.ac.uk (J.P.Gardner)
- Subject: Re: Goodbye, Justice Marshall
- Message-ID: <AA18321.199301281540@tuda.ncl.ac.uk>
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- References: <guest24.10.728008359@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:40:14 GMT
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- guest24@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu writes:
- >
- > In article <carrot.04qg@bear.stonemarche.org> carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl) writes:
- > >Subject: Goodbye, Justice Marshall
- > >From: carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl)
- > >Date: 25 Jan 93 06:23:01 EST
- >
- > > Rachel sighs. "So many great people are leaving the world..."
- > >She accepts the IBC that Mike hands her and walks to the chalk line.
- >
- > > "To Thurgood Marshall, first (and hopefully not last) black
- > >Supreme Court Justice, the lawyer who ended school segregation by winning
- > >Brown vs. the Board of Education, generally a great man who really cared
- > >about the ideals he stood for. He died yesterday of heart failure at the
- > >age of 84.
- >
- > > "Blessings upon you, Justice Marshall, wherever you may be."
- >
- > Jack Crow follows her toast, with one of his own, adding
- >
- > "Thurgood Marshall, thank you for fighting, and never quitting.
- > And, may the gods help us, but we have replaced the first African American
- > Supreme Court Justice with Clarence Thomas, the second African American
- > Supreme Court Justice. In Marshall's memory I can only hope that the
- > pattern of replacing liberal greats with mediocer conservatives has ended,
- > and that President Clinton will help remake the Supreme Court into a body
- > that gives rights, rather than takes them away."
- >
- > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CRASH<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
-
- The Space Cadet joins in.
-
- "About 4 or 5 years ago, Justice Marshall announced that he intended to
- `serve his term,' -- the implication being that he would not resign
- until he died*, or perhaps until there was a Democrat to replace him.
- Well, he died less than a week after the inauguration of a Democrat. I
- am tempted to be sad that he didn't live up to his intentions. But I
- think in the end, like others in the same position -- Douglas, Brennen,
- -- he had too much respect for the institution of the Supreme Court to
- stay on beyond the point where he had the strength to do the job. And
- who's to say? Perhaps the debacle of the Thomas confirmation hearings
- affected the election."
-
- <<<CRASH>>>
-
- *Note: US Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life.
-
-
- PS: "OK, OK, I'll add this, wallowing in optimism: No matter what you
- think of Justice Thomas, you have to admit that the controversy over
- his nomination and confirmation was not about race. In a prejudice-
- free society incompetent people of all races will be judged as
- individuals, and not as representatives of their race."
-
- --The Space Cadet
- Jon Gardner
- dph1jg@tuda.ncl.ac.uk
-
-