Today in Supreme Court History: August 30, 1967

8/30/1967: Justice Thurgood Marshall takes the oath.

Justice Thurgood Marshall

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[Dan Schiavetta]

Wise v. Lipscomb, 434 U.S. 1329 (decided August 30, 1977): Powell stays Court of Appeals judgment rejecting reapportionment plan for electing Dallas City Council; plans submitted by legislatures (as opposed to plans ordered by a federal court) are entitled to some leeway and some at-large voting may be permissible; says good chance that cert would be granted (it was, and the Court agreed with Powell, 437 U.S. 535, 1978)

Dandridge v. Jefferson Parish School Board, 404 U.S. 1219 (decided August 30, 1971): Marshall, as you might expect, denies stay of desegregation plan; admits that changing from a dual to a unitary school system is difficult, but notes the "devastating, often irreparable injury to children who experience segregation and isolation" and cites the long list of Court desegregation decisions and notes that this Louisiana school district has been "mired in litigation for seven years"

[DaivdBehar]

notes the "devastating, often irreparable injury to children who experience segregation and isolation"

Notes the devastating, often irreparable injury to children who experience Democrat, government education.

[Davedave]

What happened to the real Behar? Some kind of involuntary confinement to a mental institution? This copycat troll just doesn't have the same flair.

[DaivdBehar]

Davey Boy try addressing the appalling underachieving educational performance of our children. India has more Honor Roll students than we have children. The average Korean student outperforms our Honor Roll students, probably in English, if you are looking at Democrat jurisdictions.

Your party, the party of the vile lawyer, stinks.

https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/sei/edTool/data/highschool-08.html

[DaivdBehar]

Davey Boy. I am guessing you attended a government owned school. Part of the Democrat suck is their education in rhetoric. All they have are personal insults, instead of substantive points.

[Krayt]

He is fully capable of biting, pithy sarcasm.

[Frank Drackman]

Did he really need the glasses? Doesn't appear to be a very strong Rx, style points for rocking the Wayfarers years before Jake and Elwood, and apparently although Clarence "Frogman" Thomas is only the Second Afro-Amurican Surpreme, he is the first with an Afro
(check out the 70's Yale yearbook photo)https://www.businessinsider.com/clarence-thomas-voted-for-mcgovern-2013-4
Frank

[Frank Drackman]

80's photo with Ronaldus Maximus, CT with a Billy Dee Williams-ish Jheri Kurl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas#/media/File:Ronald_Reagan_and_Clarence_Thomas_in_1986.jpg

[SRG]

Observation made by Thurgood Marshall as recounted in "Devil in the Grove", that if one of his attorneys were defending an accused black rapist in the South and the jury convicted him and determined that he should get a life sentence, rather than a death sentence, then they'd done their job and the jury thought he was innocent; because if the jury really thought he was guilty, they'd have wanted him to be executed.

[Frank Drackman]

why have a trial if we're supposed to "Believe the women!!!!!!"??????