Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1997
Abstract
At Justice Brennan's funeral, President Clinton spoke of the justice's enormous impact on our country's law-thirty-four years on the Supreme Court, over 1300 opinions authored, many of them landmarks: Baker v. Carr, opening the way to one person, one vote; Craig v. Boren, wielding the Equal Protection Clause to strike down discrimination on the basis of sex; Goldberg v. Kelly, insisting on the right of the poorest citizens of the administrative state to be heard in the face of an arbitrary bureaucracy; New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, articulating the modem rationale for a free press; and so many more.
Disciplines
Law | Legal Biography
Recommended Citation
Gerard E. Lynch,
William J. Brennan, Jr., American – In Memoriam,
97
Colum. L. Rev.
1603
(1997).
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