Tag Archives: William Brennan

Tumultuary Harry Reid Insults Whites, Women and Justice Thomas

Posted on July 11, 2014 by David E Smith

Maybe there’s a silver lining to the cloud created by U.S. Senator Harry Reid’s tumult of confused and disordered thinking. Maybe he has just inadvertently made a case for his own political demise.

Posted in Federal | Tagged Betty Friedan, Coretta Scott King, Earl Warren, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harry Reid, Hugo Black., Joseph Story, Louis D. Brandeis, Maya Angelou, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RFRA, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, William Brennan, William O. Douglas | Comments Off

A Call to Martyrdom

Posted on July 10, 2013 by David E Smith

Sudden as it seems to some, the Supreme Court’s endorsement of gay marriage in Windsor was a long time in coming. In cultural terms, of course, it is the fruit of fifty years of sexual liberation with all its attendant institutional, technological, and psychological shifts.

Posted in Sexuality | Tagged H. Jefferson Powell, Samuel Alito, William Brennan | Comments Off