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Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908January 24, 1993) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.

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Is Ann Coulter Right About the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King?

In her new best-seller Ann Coulter breaks with the politically correct history of the civil rights movement by openly criticizing Rev.

Martin Luther King Jr.The always provocative Coulter makes the case that King's embrace of mass street protests, specifically breaking the law by staging marches without permits and gaining public sympathy by purposely putting children in the way of vicious dogs and blasts from power water hoses used by rabid segregationists, is a prime example of how liberals throughout history get their way by using angry, inflammatory mob behavior.Coulter writes in her book "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America," that "Martin Luther King Jr. ...used images in order to win publicity and goodwill for his cause, deploying children in the streets for a pointless, violent confrontation with a lame-duck lunatic: Theophilus Eugene 'Bull' Connor," the Birmingham sheriff who was known to be easily provoked to brutality and violence to enforce racial segregation...

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  1. Kagan Documents Show Important Details About Her Remain Mystery

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — As Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan undergoes questioning before senators this week, some of the hearing may sound like it's in a foreign language...

  3. Kagan's Opponents Grasping at Straws

    Over the decades since Justice Stevens’ confirmation, hearings for Supreme Court nominees have become unforgiving of candor (while simultaneously purporting to crave...

  4. On Day 2 of Senate hearings, Supreme Court nominee Kagan insists she didn't block military

    Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan maneuvered carefully through tough Republican questioning on military recruitment at Harvard Law School, gun owners' rights and fre...

  5. Kagan's positions on legal issues of the day, in her own words; potential pitfalls await?

    WASHINGTON (AP) — How might a Justice Elena Kagan rule on the leading issues of the day?Some hints are in her speeches, writings and answers to senators who confirme...

  6. Kagan unscathed after documents emerge, but questions remain about judicial approach

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of pages worth of documents from Elena Kagan's past have left President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee relatively unscathed...

  7. The Biggest Question About Elena Kagan

    Today marks the first day on the bench for Justice Elena Kagan , the Supreme Court 's junior justice. Kagan replaces Justice John Paul Stevens , who was one of the l...

  8. Kagan on Life: As Radical as They Come

    The discredited practice of partial-birth abortion has been rejected by the overwhelming majority of Americans, including a large percentage of people who consider t...

  9. In Kagan, Court Gets A Real Wild Card

    Today Elena Kagan becomes Justice Kagan, with a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court of the United States.She could well be there for a generation, and become o...

  10. Republicans Set Sights on Kagan 'Liberalism,' Inexperience Ahead of Hearing

    Senate Republicans pledged Sunday to scrutinize Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's "liberal" activism and lack of judicial experience at her upcoming hearing, as De...

  11. Kagan's political experience, legal mentors, stance on military fuel Republican criticism

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Elena Kagan's a politics-driven liberal, her detractors say. She's a judicial activist. She treated military recruiters like second-class citizens ...

  12. Web Exclusive: Hannity vs. Specter

    Sean's complete showdown with Democratic senator over party switch

  1. As a young lawyer at high court, Kagan was on guard against Supreme Court's conservative shift

    WASHINGTON (AP) — As a young lawyer working for Justice Thurgood Marshall, Elena Kagan repeatedly expressed her concern that a conservative Supreme Court was looking...

  2. Analysis: Republicans use first black justice as example of judicial activism

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Dead nearly two decades, the late Justice Thurgood Marshall looms improbably over Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, a resurrection in ...

  3. Biographical information on Elena Kagan

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  4. NPR fires analyst who said Muslims on planes make him nervous; Fox News extends his contract

    "I'm not a bigot," longtime news analyst Juan Williams said. Then he talked about getting nervous on a plane when he sees people in Muslim dress. Fair game for one o...

  5. Teachers on summer vacation become students in behind-the-scenes look at Supreme Court

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Adele Dalesandro stepped inside the U.S. Supreme Court wide-eyed. She spoke in whispers, trying to absorb everything about the room she had read so...

  6. CAPITAL CULTURE: Marshall's legacy takes stage as DC focuses on his former clerk, Kagan

    WASHINGTON (AP) — He called her Shorty. She called him the most important lawyer of the 20th century.Now, in a case of uncanny timing, the story of former Supreme Co...

  7. Kagan Pledges to Uphold the Law, as Republicans Raise Concern Over 'Activism'

    Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan pledged on Monday to do her best to consider "every case impartially, modestly, with commitment to principle and in accordance with...

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