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Monday, January 25.1993
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thurgood Marshall's career
Thurgoed Marshal was a member of the liberal Supreme Court of the 1960's chief Justice Jude Mann, the Warren court was replaced by the conservative appointees of Richardixon and Donna Mugagan, but Marshal's final voice was often heard in dissenting opinions.
July 2.1908
Marshall was born in Baltimore.
1933
Marshall graduated from Howard University Law School in Washington at the top of his class.
1954
before the Supreme Court, in all. Marshall argued 33 cases before the court, and won 29.
Marshall argued and won the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation case
June 13, 1967
1972
Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson.
1977
Source: The Associated Press
Marshall wrote one of his sharpest dissenting opinions when the court ruled that states were under no legal jurisdiction. He also "non therapeutic" abortions for women on welfare.
June 27,1991
Marshall leaves the court for health-related reasons.
Jan. 24,1993
At 2 p.m. at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland, Marshall died of heart failure.
Dan Schauer/KANSAN
The Associated Press
Former justice fought for civil abortion rights
Marshall dies of heart failure
WASHINGTON—Retired Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to serve on the nation's highest court, died yesterday of heart failure. He was 84.
Marshall, who had been in failing health for the past several years, died at 2 p.m. at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in suburban Maryland, according to Toni House, Supreme Court spokeswoman.
He left the court in July 1991. Mars shall, who was active in judicial matters until a few months ago, had been
scheduled to swear in Al Gore as vice president on Wednesday, but he was hospitalized and the duty went to Justice Byron White.
As a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Marshall argued and won the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation case in 1954.
Marshall was appointed to the court on June 13,1967, by President Lyndon B. Johnson, climaxing a career as a civil rights lawyer, appeals court judge and U.S. solicitor general.
Marshall, a gregarious man before he was named to the court, became considerably more solemn in public. The natural optimism he displayed as the nation's most successful civil rights lawyer appeared to fade.
Among some of the more important decisions written by Marshall for the high court were those saying that
shopping center owners' rights to restrict demonstrations were limited; that a teacher cannot be fired for speaking out truthfully on public issues; that possessing obscene material within the privacy of one's own home cannot be made a crime.
One of his sharpest dissents came in 1977 when the court ruled that states were under no legal obligation to pay for "non-therapeutic" abortions for women on welfare.
"I am appalled at the ethical bankruptcy of those who preach a right to life that means, under present social policies, a bare existence in utter misery for so many poor women and their children," he said.
In 1972 decision which struck down capital punishment laws, Marshall declared that the death penalty was unconstitutional under any circumstances.
The court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Marshall often spoke in opposition. In a 1984 speech at the New York University law school, he said the death penalty was being imposed with "startling unfairness."
"The most glaring of the inequities in the administration of the death penalty concerns the race of victims and defendants," he said.
Marshall, the great grandson of a slave, was born in Baltimore and grew up in comfortable, but not affluent, circumstances.
He graduated from Lincoln University in Chester, Pa, where he originally intended to study dentistry. After switching to law, his mother sold her engagement ring to help him through Howard University Law School in Washington.
He graduated at the top of his class in 1933.
Clinton's plan to lift ban upsets leaders
Defense secretary plans to curb opposition
The Associated Press
"You can object and stonewall ... but one of these days we're going to have, like it happened in Canada, where the court suddenly comes in
As Clinton prepared for a meeting today with the chiefs of the armed services, Aspin said Clinton was deeply committed to ending discrimination against homosexuals in the military.
WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Les Aspin said yesterday he wanted to head off a potential "revolt" in Congress and among the Joint Chiefs of Staff about President Clinton's plan to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military.
and says, "You have to — that this is unconstitutional." Aspin said.
A draft of a dan. 18 memo from Aspin to the president said Clinton should give the defense secretary six months' draft an executive order lifting the ban.
Time magazine reported that Colin Powell, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, might resign if Clinton lifts the ban on homosexuals.
In his television appearance, Aspin said he hoped to work out a solution so "that there will not be a revolt in the military" and avoid a possible confrontation with Congress.
Aspin, however, said "that's not in
the cards. We're trying to work together on this thing."
Army Col. Bill Smullen, a representative for Powell, denied the Time report, saying he "has no intent to resign," although he "is very much opposed to lifting the ban and hopes to express his views to the president on Monday."
Several high-ranking Pentagon officials told The Associated Press that at least some of the chiefs were upset that Clinton's mind seemed made up. They met with Aspin last week in what was described as an emotional, two-hour discussion.
Aspin's draft memo to Clinton suggests that the president hold two meetings: one with "key senators" to prevent "an early, unfavorable vote"
in the Senate and the other with the Joint Chiefs.
"This is not a negotiation," said the memo's entry on the Joint Chiefs' meeting. "Instead, it is the first step in the consultation that you have promised."
But Aspin said the opposite on CBS, while confirming the memo's content.
"The point is, is that it is a negotiation," said Aspin. "You can have a negotiation about how to implement it without ever agreeing on whether you're going to implement it."
Aspin said that "as a practical matter, we are not going to be able to force this down the throats of the Congress. If the Congress does not like it, it isn't going to happen."
First lady to have expanded role, influence.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Never mind the flap about ner hat or the heat about her headband or the fuss about her figure.
The new first lady is the first to snaag a West Wing office alongside other White House policymakers, and she has an open invitation to help set the course of the new administration.
Her staff carries far more clout than did Barbara Bush's and her expected areas of influence include health-care reform, one of the most complex and difficult to manage a agenda. Her husband says he would be 'deeply concerned.'
Hillary Rodham Clinton is rewriting her job description from the start, promising an activist role akin to that she played as Arkansas' first lady, where she was deeply involved in education reform, children's issues and other policy matters. Press secretary Lisa Caputo said Hillary Clinton
was "thrilled and excited" to be settling in and had studied the histories of former first ladies in considering her approach to the position.
"She will be an adviser to the president on matters concerning domestic policy, and that includes health care policy," said Caputo, adding that details of her role were still being worked out.
One of her first solo appearances as first lady will recognize her past contributions on behalf of families and children. She receives the annual Louis J. Hines award in New York tomorrow.
Clinton's admirers hope in the United States will come to recognize her more for her substantive work and less for her fashions and figure, which drew intense scrutiny during the campaign and the inaugural festivities.
there are two big differences with Clinton:
Author Carl Sterrazza Anthony, who has written extensively about presidential wives, said many women served as advisers to their husbands, but
People in U.S. displayed mixed feelings about what they expect from their first lady. A U.S. News & World Report survey found that 47 percent of people thought an advisory role for Mrs. Clinton would help her husband's presidency and 40 percent thought it would hurt.
Clinton's aides include five commissioned officers appointed by the president, compared to just one for Barbara Bush, White House aides say.
She arrives with decades of experience in her own right, as a lawyer and advocate for children and families. And She's not hiding her likely influence. "Rather than reacting to rumors, they are being very natural" about her role, Anthony said.
At the same time, 70 percent favored her being "traditional first lady" and just 34 percent thought she should be "a major adviser on appointments and policy."
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