liberal justices protecting civil liberties?

Topics: Rights
21 Jan 1994

From: ervan

>From 2/94, Reason, p. 25:

The prevailing, although rarely acknowledged,
attitude in American courts is that almost any trial
is too good for a person accused of a drug crime.
That attitude was succinctly displayed in a remark
by one of the most liberal Supreme Court justices.
In a 1987 interview with *Life*, Thurgood Marshall
said, "It it's a dope case, I won't even read the peti-
tion. I ain't giving no break to no dope dealer."


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