William J. Brennan Jr. Quotes
With five votes and you can get anything around here.
William J. Brennan, Jr., 1906-1997, U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Quoted by Jeffery Tubin, PBS The Charlie Rose Show, October 23, 2007
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Whithead’s view which seems intuitively right to most citizens, tends to be the one that the majority espouses but the minority opposes. At the time, the Republicans controlled the White House and there were a number of polarizing issues, where the Republicans could not obtain consensus and then decided. However, then the Democrats gained control of the White House and Congress the next year, it was the Democrats who claimed that they had to decide. The Republicans, now in the majority, argued that significant changes in America should not be made by narrow majorities and major issues should be tabled if there was no substantial majority. That was the position that the Democrats had espoused when they were in the minority.
The card was issued to all American troops in the theater. Similar versions were distributed to troops in Iraq, and other Arab countries.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Paxon himself was one of the ‘whips’ responsible for doing this for the Republicans when he was in the Congress.
William Joseph Brennan Jr. was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1956 to 1990. He was the seventh-longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history, and known for being a leader of the Court's liberal wing.
