Those are stupid people. Those are stupid people that say that." Those "stupid people" include Justice William Brennan, who wrote the majority opinion in the 1989 case Texas v. Johnson ...

Daphne Kolios: Could you give a summary of your book, what it touches on and its key points? Stephen Wermiel: Justice William Brennan was on the Supreme Court for 34 years, from 1956 to 1990, and in ...

William J. Brennan was not alone in his surprise ... Vanderbilt of New Jersey, cannot account entirely for the President's choice. Justice Brennan is a lifelong Democrat and a Catholic, two ...

In Stanford v. Kentucky, the 1989 case on the constitutionality of capital punishment for 16- and 17-year-olds, Justice William Brennan pointed out the conservative majority’s “evident but ...

Justice William J. Brennan Jr. attempts to defend his judicial career of misinterpreting the Constitution to entrench liberal policy preferences. Brennan states that the “encounter with the ...

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. announces his retirement. As Jan Crawford describes it in Supreme Conflict, “For conservatives, Brennan’s retirement gave George H.W. Bush the chance of a ...

1963— As Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel write in Justice Brennan, this day stands out among all others as the day when Justice Brennan’s “new majority”—resulting from Arthur Goldberg’s ...

1982—In a 5-4 ruling in Plyler v. Doe, Justice Brennan’s majority opinion holds that the Equal Protection Clause requires Texas to provide a free public education to children who are illegal ...

The Judicial-Confirmation Standings as the Senate Returns to Work 1990—After nearly 34 years of liberal judicial activism on the Supreme Court, Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. announces his ...