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BONNIE RISHER
I don’t agree with letting
them loose; any solution is
better than letting them go.
The Present Justices
Of The Supreme Court
By Albert Saye
Richard B. Russell
Professor
University of Georgia
October 6 marked the
beginning of anew term for
the United States Supreme
Court. Who is on the Court,
and what kind of decisions
can we expect during the
current term?
William O. Douglas is the
best known of the nine
Justices. Because of his
advanced age (77) and ill
health, the news media has
given him considerable pub
licity in recent months. A
native of Minnesota, Douglas
was appointed to the Court by
President Franklin D. Roose
velt in 1939. His 36 years of
service give him the distinc
tion of the longest tenure of
any Justice in the history of
the Court.
President Roosevelt had
suffered the misfortune of
having much of his New Deal
legislation invalidated by the
Supreme Court. Most of the
“nine old men” on the Court
at the time were ultra-con
servative in point of view.
They felt it their duty to
strike down any “socialistic”
legislation, national or state.
With the passing of years,
Roosevelt was able to
appoint 8 new Justices to the
Court, among them Douglas
and Hugo L. Black, both
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THE PEOPLE’S FORUM
How do you feel about the state releasing criminals eariy ?
TOM O’DELL
Poor planning caused this
situation; I think that we
ought to go back to the county
work camp system so that
they wouldn’t have to let
people go before their
sentences were up.
known for their liberal views.
Before his death in 1971,
Justice Black decided that
the Warren Court was taking
judicial power too far, and he
became a vigorous dissenter.
Not so with Justice Douglas.
He remains the Court’s
outstanding liberal, especial
ly in the area of civil rights.
The two other noted
liberals on the Court today
are Justices William J.
Brennan and Thurgood Mar
shall. Brennan, age 69, a
native of New Jersey, was
appointed to the Court by
President Eisenhower in
1956. Marshall, age 67, is a
native of Maryland. He was
on the legal staff of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People for 20 years before his
appointment to the Second
Circuit Court of Appeals by
President Kennedy. He was
appointed to the Supreme
Court by President Johnson
in 1967.
The conservative wing of
the Court is made up of the
four Nixon appointees: Chief
Justice Burger and Associate
Justices Blackmun, Powell,
and Rehnquist.
Chief Justice Warren E.
Burger, age 68, a native of
Minnesota, was judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals of the
District of Columbia at the
time he was appointed to the
Supreme Court in 1969.
Justice Harry A. Blackmun,
age 69, a native of Illinois,
was a judge of the U.S. Court
of Appeals of the Bth Circuit
when appointed to the
Supreme Court in 1970. Lewis
F. Powell, age 68, a native of
Virginia, appointed to the
Supreme Court in 1971, was a
former president of the
American Bar Association.
William H. Rehnquist, of
Wisconsin, age 51, was
Assistant Attorney General
of the United States when
appointed to the Court in
1971.
Between the left and right
wings of the Court stand two
middle-of-the-road men, Jus
tices Stewart and White.
Potter Stewart, age 60, a
native of Michigan, was
appointed to the Court by
President Eisenhower in
1959. Byron R. White, age 58,
a native of Colorado, was
appointed to the Court by
President Kennedy in 1962.
The philosophical dif
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DONNIE PHILLIPS
I’m against it, because we
are too lenient on criminals
now as it is.
ferences between the Jus
tices is illustrated by the
opinions in the 1972 cases
dealing with the death
penalty in criminal cases.
Representative of the liberal
view, Justice Brennan
wrote: ‘The question present
ed in these cases is whether
death is today a punishment
for crime that is ‘cruel and
unusual’ and consequently
. . . beyond the power of
the State to inflict.
“At bottom . . . the
Cruel and Unusal Punish
ment Clause prohibits the
infliction of uncivilized and
inhuman punishments. The
State, even as it punishes,
must treat its members with
respect for their intrinsic
worth as human beings. A
punishment is ‘cruel and
unusual,’ therefore, if it does
not comport with human
dignity . . . death stands
condemned as fatally offen
sive to human dignity.”
In an opinion concurred in
by all four of the Nixon
appointees, Justice Powell
wrote: “The Court rejects as
not decisive the clearest
evidence that the Framers of
the Constitution and the
authors of the Forteenth
Amendment believed that
those documents posed no
barrier to the death penalty.
The Court also brushes aside
an unbroken line of prece-
s
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I don’t think it is right,
because they will influence
younger people and create
more problems.
dent reaffirming the hereto
fore virtually unquestioned
constitutionality of capital
punishment ... In terms
of the constitutional role of
this Court, the impact of the
majority’s ruling is all the
greater because the decision
encroaches upon an area
squarely within the historic
prerogative of the legislative
branch both state and
federal to protect the
citizenry through the desig
nation of penalties for
prohibitable conduct.”
With the three liberal
Justices voting to void the
death penalty and the four
conservatives voting to sus
tain it, the decision of the
Court turned upon the votes
of the two moderates,
Stewart and White. In the
cases before the Court they
both voted with the liberals,
but their opinions showed
that they did not consider
capital punishment to be void
under all circumstances.
While the line of division
among the Justices is in
general as presented here, it
is not hard and fast. For
example, the 1973 decision
invalidating state abortion
laws was written by Justice
Blackmun, with Justice
White dissenting.
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PERSONALS
Mrs. G. N. Etheredge, Jr.,
Mandy and Jenny, of
Charlotte, N. C., and Mrs.
Kenneth Schurke and Dick of
Lawrenceville spent last
Thursday with Mr. and Mrs.
G. N. Etheredge, Sr. Jenny
Etheredge remained with
her grandparents for an
indefinite visit.
Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Howell
were among those from
Jackson who went to Jack
sonville, Florida for the
Georgia-Florida game in the
Gator Bowl last Saturday
afternoon.
Mrs. Alton P. Long
Come Win With Moore!
A candidate worth his salt will take the voters in
his confidence and will actively solicit their votes. I wish
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I OFFER EXPERIENCE for which their is no
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returned home Sunday from
Griffin-Spalding County Hos
pital where she was a patient
for a week and underwent
minor surgery while there.
Mr. and Mrs. Mac Long of
Athens spent the weekend
with his mother, Mrs. Ruby
G. Long, and family.
Friends of Mr. H. M.
Fletcher will be interested to
learn that he is showing
improvement in Griffin-
Spa dling County Hospital,
where he has been a patient
for more than a week. Mrs.
Fletcher is staying in Griffin
with her husband.
Mr. and Mrs. Mac Long of
Athens, Mrs. Ruby G. Long,
Miss Pat Long, Bobby, Ricky
and Michael Long, Mrs.
Frances L. Cook, Miss
Bootsie Cook, and Miss
Debbie Duke were supper
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Long of Locust Grove last
Saturday night.
Rev. Phil DeMore and Mr.
Rufus Adams will be among
those from Jackson going
over the Athens Saturday for
the Georgia-Auburn game at
Sanford Field.
Mrs. E. A. Parrish spent
Friday in Lawrenceville with
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Duna
gan. Ted and Keith returned
. home with her. Their parents
attended the 200th Anniver
sary Marine Ball on Satur
day.