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Jul 16, 2019 · Stevens sits for a portrait in 1976. Corbis via Getty Images. Stevens looks over some legal material on January 12, 1976, in his chambers in Washington prior to joining his colleagues for his...
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- Stevens' Impact on The Supreme Court
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 16, 2019 · By Linda Greenhouse. July 16, 2019. John Paul Stevens, whose 35 years on the United States Supreme Court transformed him, improbably, from a Republican antitrust lawyer into the outspoken...
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