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May 2, 2023 · Justice John Paul Stevens’s files on thousands of cases, including landmark decisions on abortion and the 2000 election, have been made public, opening a window on the Supreme Court.
Jul 20, 2019 · Justice John Paul Stevens was an active behind-the-scenes player in many of the abortion cases that came before the Supreme Court during his 35-year tenure.
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Before he joined the Supreme Court, Stevens made a name for himself in private practice. It took a pair of scandals to bring Stevens, an antitrust attorney, to national prominence. He was general counsel for a specialcommittee the Illinois legislature appointed to investigate claims that two Illinois Supreme Court judges had accepted bribes from a ...
At first, Stevens’ conservative views made an impact on national law. As a new justice, he sided with the majority inGregg v. Georgia, a landmark case that reinstated the death penalty after a previous case that had struck down the practice throughout the United States. Stevens also entered the court as one of affirmative action’s most vocal enemie...
Stevens led the majority in decisions like Atkins v. Virginia, in which the Court ruled that executing people with intellectual disabilities is cruel and unusual punishment and violates the Eighth Amendment. The decision narrowed the Court’s view on when the death penalty can be applied. By the time he retired in 2010, Stevens had authored liberal ...
Jul 17, 2019 · Jeffrey Toobin writes about the legacy of the Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who died on Tuesday and was a vanishing breed of Republican who supported abortion rights, full racial ...
May 2, 2023 · Politics May 2, 2023 5:43 PM EDT. WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly opened records that belonged to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens give the public a behind-the-scenes glimpse at his decades on ...
2010] Justice John Paul Stevens as Abortion-Rights Strategist 753 early post-Roe cases to uphold some challenged restrictions on access to abortion and to invalidate others,10 it is easy to suppose that Justice Stevens could have resided comfortably for years in some middle position on abortion. But that was a luxury that he was not to enjoy.
Nov 30, 2021 · Madison Alder. Reporter. Roe wasn’t immediately focus at Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Abortion unique in confirmations as a long-term, unsettled issue. Justice John Paul Stevens didn’t face a single question about abortion at his 1975 Senate confirmation hearing two years after the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
